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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children
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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.
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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
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It's fun being a kid.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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You see much more of your children once they leave home.
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There is no sinner like a young saint.
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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.
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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]
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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]
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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]
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Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
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Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.
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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.
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The only moral lesson which is suited for a child, the most important lesson for every time of life, is this: Never hurt anybody.
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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
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The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.
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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.
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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.
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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.
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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
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Children have more need of models than of critics.
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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.
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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.
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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
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Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.
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It takes three to make a child.
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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
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Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.
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When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.
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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.
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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.
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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.
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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
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So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
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The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.
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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.
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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.
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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.
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Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.
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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?
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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.
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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.
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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.
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Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.
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I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex.
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Children always turn to the light.
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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.
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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.
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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
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Children are our most valuable natural resource.
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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.
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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.
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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
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