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“We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.”
“If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.”
“Kids didn't have huge backpacks when I was their age. We didn't have backpacks at all. Now it seemed all the kids had them. You saw little second-graders bent over like sherpas, dragging themselves...”
“What are men? Children who doubt.”
“...who would have known the dark eyes staring into mine would become our children's eyes...?”
“Beat your child once a day. If you don't know why he does.”
“Of all animals the boy is the most unmanageable.”
“If children grew up according to early indications we should have nothing but geniuses.”
“What children expect from grownups is not to be 'understood' but only to be loved even though this love may be expressed clumsily or in sternness. Intimacy does not exist between generations - only...”
“William Blake really is important my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.”
“When I was a child I spake as a child I understood as a child I thought as a child but when I became a man I put away childish things.”
“Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour for their curiosity their intolerance of shams the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.”
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders but they have never failed to imitate them.”
“If a child lives with approval he learns to live with himself.”
“What's done to children they will do to society.”
“Unlike grownups children have little need to deceive themselves.”
“There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age.”
“Children need love especially when they do not deserve it.”
“Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived lives of the parents.”
“Books ... rarely if ever talk about what children can make of themselves about the powers that from the day or moment of birth are present in every child.”
