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“The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.”
“The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience.”
“A grownup is a child with layers on.”
“What is an adult? A child blown up by age.”
“One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.”
“I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness.”
“I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.”
“To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.”
“I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.”
“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.”
“The child's mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferi...”
“Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.”
“I had this child, and it destroyed my family.”
“The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.”
“The arrival of any child brings you a lot of happiness.”
“In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.”
“A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we ...”
“As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all...”
“I think a common misperception about attuning and tending to a child's needs so constantly is that they don't grow in their independence, but I think that the opposite is true.”
“I worry that when educational counselors and teachers call in families with concerns about a child having a learning disability, we aren't always looking at the complete picture.”
