We can aim to create a culture, where kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
We’re all mad here.
Children had rather be making of Tools and Instruments of Play; Shaping, Drawing, Framing, and Building, &c. than getting some Rules of Propriety of Speech by Heart: And those also would follow with more Judgment, and less Trouble and Time.
The more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If you never let them take any risks, then I believe they become very prone to injury.
On the farm, I had chores. I had a calf. We had a herd of cattle in the pasture. We’d go and get me a calf at a cow auction with Amish people, which I would raise. I gave it a bottle every day, in this cute little coop, like a giant dog coop almost. I’ve always been a big animal person.
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
We all acquire damage as infants and children and we work on removing those scars all of our lives. You won’t heal everything, but what’s important is the work.
I was planning to go into law or politics. I was well known for my public speaking. I went to an all-girl boarding school with uniforms. It was very posh for someone like me who came from a world where my parents showed beagles and sold dog products out of a yellow caravan.
I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker’s family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Everything depends on upbringing.
Once you’re grown up you can’t come back.
With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents, are their most important role models.
Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.
I was born on a plantation, and things weren’t so good. We didn’t have any money. I never thought of the word ‘poor’ ’til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you’re not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.
The idea of kids helping other kids is such a great way to introduce children to being involved in charitable causes and volunteer work, setting them on the path to doing good for others throughout their lives.
I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I’ve improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
