The soul is healed by being with children.
Children Quotes
There are some things best done for love, not for gain. Child rearing is one of the most obvious examples. Children need to know that their parents love them unconditionally. By sacrificing a second income so one parent can be home, parents boost their children’s self-esteem much more than by taking them to work once […]
Most of what we object to as misconduct in children is a natural rebellion against the intrusion of an unimaginative adult despotism in their lives.
Life, love, and laughter – what priceless gifts to give our children.
What we desire our children to become, we must endeavor to be before them.
What we found in examining diaries, letters, autobiographies, pediatric and pedagogical literature back to antiquity was that good parenting appears to be something only historically achieved, and that the further one goes back into the past the more likely one would be to find children killed, abandoned, beaten, terrorized and sexually abused by adults. Indeed, […]
So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
I pray every day that God make me a child, that is to say that he will let me see nature in the unprejudiced way that a child sees it.
When you arrange parenting modes on a scale of decreasing health, from empathic down to the most destructive child-battering parents, you have also listed historical modes of child care reaching back into the past. It is as though today’s child abuser were a sort of “evolutionary arrest,” a psychological fossil, stuck in a personality mode […]
Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land And don’t criticize What you can’t understand Your sons and your daughters Are beyond your command Your old road is Rapidly agin’. Please get out of the new one If you can’t lend your hand For the times they are a-changin’. (Robert Zimmerman)
