We have made mistakes with our children, which will undoubtedly become clearer as they get old enough to write their own books.
Children Quotes
Insanity is hereditary: you can get it from your children.
In bringing up a child, think of its old age.
The real menace in dealing with a five-year -old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.
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 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.
