A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Parenthood
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James Baldwin – Children
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
James Baldwin – Child development
Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.
Emilie Buchwald – Reading
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
Charles Dickens – Children, Injustice
What do girls do who haven’t any mothers to help them through their troubles?
Louisa May Alcott – Mother, Children
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them
Gabriel García Marquez – Children, Love
A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.
Paulo Coelho – Happiness
Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
Albert Camus – Children, Society
Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner
Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, ”Go to sleep by yourselves.” And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.
Independence and difference
I think that chocolate gets boring for kids if they get it at house after house. If someone is offering something different, they’ll go for that.
Halloween Candy Bowl
What we need is to take a step back and say ‘why is it we as a country have a problem with children’s nutrition and obesity?’ These are things we can all solve rather than suggesting that teachers solve them for us.
Teachers being turned into social workers?
The challenge will be for us to resist those pressures and make it clear that the most important thing schools can do is to give children the skills, knowledge, confidence and qualifications to make independent and autonomous decisions for themselves. To be authors of their own life story.
Importance of school
The key thing is to give a child a great start in life [...] The ideal, of course, is to place an adopted child with a family whose circumstances and background match its own, but in the search for that match it is often black and Asian children who suffer. The longer they are in care, the more difficulties occur.
