Thereβs a different flavor to childrenβs literature you read after you grow up than there was reading it as a child. Things that were sweet as a child become bitter once you grow up.
Let children alone... the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone, not teasing them with perpetual commands and directions - a running fire of Do and Donβt ; but letting them go their own way and grow, having first secured that they will go the right way and grow to fruitful purpose.
My nickname at school was βGooeyβ.
Every human child is vengeful at some point if not educated otherwise.
Send your child to school for education, not for attendance
Creativity is child-like curiousity..
A child today, an adult tomorrow.
Educate every child to have a good head, good heart and kind spirit.
Educate every child.
Most adults are knowledgeable to a child, but ignorant for their age.
As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them.
They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.
I don't think one should incentivise the losing of teeth. I find the idea of a child getting an iPad, or a Β£20 note, for losing a tooth, utterly abhorrent. Fifty pence, or a pound at most, is what my children can expect from the Tooth Fairy.
When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not.
Everything that I had done creatively related to two or three incidents that happened to me when I was a child that I'd forgotten. Everything, absolutely everything.
In my case, I got hit a lot by bullies when I was a child, and so I naturally bristle against anybody who abuses power. And that seems to make me rather persistent when it comes to exposing the abuse of power.
What I hate about Halle Berry is there's always drama around her. It's always fighting, automobile accidents, fistfights, boyfriends fighting ex-husbands for the child.
Someone accompanies every soul from the other side when it enters this place. Usually it is an ancestor with whom that child shares traits and gifts.
I wrote the first draft of 'Tigerman' while my wife was pregnant - needless to say, I was relaxed and casual about her well-being during this tender time - and the novel clearly has its center in that panicked parental desperation that accompanies a first child and in the admittedly comedic extremes to which it drives us.
The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.
