A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child has just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.
Children Quotes
The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.
The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence.
I do not believe in a child world. It is a fantasy world. I believe the child should be taught from the very first that the whole world is his world, that adult and child share one world, that all generations are needed.
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
I have seen infants who, at the age of only two months, had already developed real neuroses because of the way they had been handled by their mothers and fathers. The infants had absorbed their parent’s anxieties like a blotter.
What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
It is a hard although a common case To find our children running restive- they In whom our brightest days we would retrace, Our little selves reform’d in finer clay, Just as old age is creeping on apace, And clouds come o’er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, […]
I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my desk.
