The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.
The first thing to understand about working with children's dreams is that adults need to listen up.
When a mother takes pictures of her children on the beach, she doesn't take herself for an artist; she does it for love, which is an excellent reason, from my point of view.
One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest. They also know well enough how this or that friend stands with their parents; and as they practice no dissimulation whatever, they serve as excellent barometers by which to observe the degree of favor or disfavor at which we stand with their parents.
A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three weeks.
As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.
That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.
A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful," says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example.
Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.
Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.
Truly there is nothing in the world so blessed or so sweet as the heritage of children.
You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory.
Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.'
Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.
We deprive our children, our charges, of persistence. What I am trying to say is that we need to fail, children need to fail, we need to feel sad, anxious and anguished. If we impulsively protect ourselves and our children, as the feel-good movement suggests, we deprive them of learning-persistence skills.
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.
We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save.
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