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- Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
- Graham Greene
- God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affection; to give our shoulds higher aims; to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion and to bring round our firesides bright faces, happy smiles, and loving, tender hearts. My soul blesses the great Father, every day, that he has gladdened the earth with little children
- Mary Howitt
- Normally, children learn to gauge rather accurately from the tone of their parent's voice how seriously to take his threats. Of course, they sometimes misjudge and pay the penalty.
- Louis Kaplan
- 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
- Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.
- Austin O'Malley
- The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- 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
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