You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well.
Children Quotes
Children need models rather than critics.
Children are given to us – on loan – for a very short period of time. They come to us like packets of seeds, with no pictures on the cover and no guarantees. We do not know what they will look like, act like, or have the potential to become. Our job, like the gardener’s, […]
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and the prejudices of their education.
If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk . . .What it does mean is to be taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.
Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents.
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
