When our kids are young, many of us rush out to buy a cute little baby book to record the meaningful events of our young child’s life. . . But I’ve often thought there should be a second book, one with room to record the moral milestones of our child’s lives. There might be space […]
Children Quotes
(Towards the end of a long buggy trip in the country now under a full moon) the little man behaved himself still like an old traveler; but sometimes he looked round at me from the front seat (where he sat between Herman Melville and Evert Duyckinck) and smiled at me with a peculiar expression, and […]
The scars left from the child’s defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis.
What society thinks and feels about its children is an index of its attitudes about a great number of things: knowledge, power, sex, the future.
Perhaps we have been misguided into taking too much responsibility from our children, leaving them too little room for discovery.
What children hear at home soon flies abroad.
When an order is given to someone under hypnosis that he do something at a certain time after he is brought back to consciousness he will do his best to conform to the order however absurd it might be. If he is prevented from fulfilling the order, he will have stirrings of acute guilt and […]
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 […]
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 […]
