A person’s maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play.
Children Quotes
She looks like something that would eat its young.
But now I’m six, I’m clever as clever So I think I’ll be six for ever and ever.
We adults forget what we do to children’s imaginations when we go through one of our national seizures on an issue. A dozen years ago, Hollywood fell in love with the environmental issue and put enviro messages in all their shows. The messages made their way into the funnies and magazines, and parents went to […]
If you don’t have any children, you’ll have nobody to neglect you in your old age.
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.
