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- In all our efforts to provide "advantages" we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.
- Eda J. Le Shan
- I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures.
- Basil W. Maturin
- Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him
- Clark Mousakas
- The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.
- Gypsy Smith
- A grandfather was walking through his yard when he heard his granddaughter repeating the alphabet in a tone of voice that sounded like a prayer. He asked her what she was doing. The little girl explained: "I'm praying, but I can't think of exactly the right words, so I'm just saying all the letters, and God will put them together for me, because He knows what I'm thinking."
- Charles B. Vaughan
- Our children seem to have wonderful taste, or none - depending, of course, on whether or not they agree with us.
- Author Unknown
- Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
- Richard Bach
- To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.
- Abbie M. Dale
- He that cannot decidedly say, "No," when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs.
- J. Hawes
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