“By loving them for more than their abilities we show our children that they are much more than the sum of their accomplishments.”

“Potential is not an endpoint but a capacity to grow and learn.”

“The miracle of children is that we just dont know how they will change or who they will become.”

“The miracle of children is that we just don’t know how they will change or who they will become.”

“If you want, you can be a child for the rest of your life and be a great LEARNER”

“The eternal child. - We think that play and fairy tales belong to childhood:how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time of life tolive without play and fairy tales! We give these ...”

“one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.”

“If there is one thing developmental psychologists have learned over the years, it is that parents dont have to be brilliant psychologists to succeed. They dont have to be supremely gifted teachers....”

“The combination of the Main brain with its central nervous system, and the ancient Animal Brain with its somatic, enteric nervous system in the inner bodyin the gutand the constant dialog between t...”

“though they know in their adult hearts,even as they threaten to banish Timmy to bedfor his appalling behavior,that their bosses are Big Fatty Stupids,their wives are Dopey Dopeheadsand that they th...”

“In a universe where all life is in movement, where ever fact seen in perspective is totally engaging, we impose stillness on lively young bodies, distort reality to dullness, make action drudgery. ...”

“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. ”

“When you're a kid all you know is that your dad puts on his suit or overalls and vanishes from your life until nightfall. Sometimes my pops came back exhausted and scarlet-eyed, as if he'd been eng...”