If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.
Children Quotes
Every child senses, with all the horse sense that’s in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.
Is nothing in life ever straight and clear, the way children see it?
Every child has a right to its own bent… It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as […]
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage – it can be delightful.
By the year 2000, we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
