Growing up in America, even in the rougher parts of Elizabeth, I had two nice playgrounds to choose from as a child.
As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for a few years when I was reading endless series. But in the end I became totally fed-up with all these sub-Tolkien rip-offs because they all end up doing the same old things and there's no rigour to it.
A lady emailed me that her child had been diagnosed with autism and that hearing my material on the subject had helped her. To me, it just means that I'm making the right decision in talking about this.
I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.
It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know how to occupy itself with itself.
I was a very naughty child, on the verge of getting expelled, but I wasn't a bad child; everything I did was for my own entertainment. But when I went into an exam, I did really well.
As a child, the person I admired most in the world was Lana Turner! She seemed the epitome of glamour, and her glitzy surroundings so enviable, the opposite of my mother's extremely banal taste.
As a child, I envisioned a career in the hard sciences. In sixth grade, I was buying college chemistry textbooks.
One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.
Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?
I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.
A child gets vaccinated and soon after, autism symptoms emerge. The apparent cause-and-effect is understandable but erroneous - more a coincidence of the calendar and childhood developmental stages than anything else, as repeated and exhaustive studies have shown.
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.
It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.
