All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly which can – and must – be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a “perfect […]
Children Quotes
While I was working inside the house, a garbage truck lumbered down our street. Stopping every few houses to grind and crush the trash, the truck was incredibly noisy. It broke my concentration. Irked, I walked to the window hoping to speed the truck’s passing with an annoyed glare. But in the front yard, my […]
Do one thing each day which you would rather not do – but feel that you ought to do. This will help your character grow, and will stand you in good stead for when you grow up and find that you have to do many things in adult life which you would prefer not to […]
Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
God helps all the children as they move into a time of life they do not understand and must struggle through with precepts they have picked from the garbage can of older people, clinging with the passion of the lost to odds and ends that will mess them up for all time, or hating the […]
I’ve been struck by the upside-down priorities of the juvenile-justice system. We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home, and the most to institutionalize him.
Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.
How children survive being Brought Up amazes me.
