Eda LeShan Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• A child can live with anything as long as he or she is told the truth and is allowed to share with loved ones the natural feelings people have when they are suffering.

  Eda LeShan

  Children, Grief, Long

  Eda J. LeShan (1978). “Learning to say good-by”, Avon Books

• A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.

  Eda LeShan

  Inspirational, Dream, Baby

  Eda J. LeShan (1967). “The Conspiracy Against Childhood”, New York : Atheneum

• Education is in danger of becoming a religion based on fear; its doctrine is to compete. Our children are being led to believe that they are doomed to failure in a world which has room only for those at the top.

  Eda LeShan

  Children, Believe, Rooms

  Eda J. LeShan (1967). “The Conspiracy Against Childhood”, New York : Atheneum

• We have kept our children so busy with "useful" and "improving" activities that we are in danger of raising a generation of young people who are terrified of silence, of being alone with their own thoughts.

  Eda LeShan

  Children, People, Silence

• We found ... that being a good parent to one's own child was never and in no way enough; until we were all responsible for all the children of the world, no child would ever be safe, no society could survive.

  Eda LeShan

  Children, Parent, World

• It helps parents to feel better if we remind them of our failures with them! And how they turned out just fine despite our imperfections.... We never get over needing nurturing parents. The more we comfort our own adult children, the more they can comfort our grandchildren.

  Eda LeShan

  Children, Feel Better, Parent

• It is strange but true that although we may have learned all sorts of important facts while raising our own children, when we become grandparents we still tend to forget a whole lot of things we knew.

  Eda LeShan

  Children, Grandparent, Important

• the highest priority for any government concerned with its own future and the peace of the world community ought to be the facilities it provides for the care and nurturance of young children.

  Eda LeShan

  Children, Government, Priorities

• Every time a child is born, we have another chance.

  Eda LeShan

  Children, Another Chance, Chance

• We all wanted babies - but did any of us want children?

  Eda LeShan

  Baby, Children, Want

  Eda J. LeShan (1965). “How to survive parenthood”

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