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People with bad consciences always
fear the
judgment of children.
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Children who are decked with prince's robes and
who have jeweled chains
round
their necks lose all pleasure in play; their dress hampers them at
every step. In fear that it may be frayed, or stained with dust, they keep
themselves from the
world and are afraid ever to move.
Mother, it is no gain, thy bondage of finery, if it keep one shut
off from the healthful
dust of the earth, if it rob one of the right of entrance to the
great
fair
of common human life.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Children
have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with
the
kind of respect that we are so confident it ought to be given.
To the irritation of authority figures of all sorts,
children expend
considerable energy in “clowning around.”
They refuse to appreciate
the gravity of our monumental
concerns, while we forget that if we were
to become more like
children our concerns might not be so monumental.
Conrad Hyers
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Play
is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious
learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is
really the work of childhood.
Fred
Rogers
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Grown people 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.
Black Elk
Don't limit a child to your own way of loving,
for the child was born in another time.
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Parents
need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high
that the rest of the world can't poke enough holes in it to drain it
dry.
Alvin
Price
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Children ask better
questions than adults. "May I have a cookie?"
"Why is the sky blue?" and "What does a cow
say?" are far more
likely to elicit a cheerful response than "Where's your
manuscript?"
"Why haven't you called?" and "Who's your
lawyer?"
Fran Lebowitz
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Children
are living beings--more living than grown-up
people who have built shells of habit around
themselves. Therefore it is
absolutely
necessary
for their
mental health and development
that they should not have mere
schools for their lessons,
but a world whose guiding spirit
is personal
love.
Rabindranath
Tagore
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Before
we can teach children life, we've got to learn again how to simply talk
with them. I would like to write a book called "How to Talk
with Children,"
because all I can see that goes on among adults and children is we're
always talking
at them, we're always talking through them or beyond them. We're
never communicating
with them. In order to really communicate with the kids, we've got
to practice
deep knee bends. We've got to get down there so we're face-to-face
with them.
We've got to try to get into their world and stop telling them about
ours.
Listen to them. Ask them to tell us what they see and feel and
hear, because,
you may be surprised, they may teach you something. It may get you
back
in touch with some of the wonder that was you and which you've
forgotten.
Leo
Buscaglia
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If
we are to reach real
peace in the world,
we shall have
to begin with children.
Mohandas
Gandhi
Let
us put our minds
together and see
what we will make
for our children.
Chief
Sitting Bull
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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.
John
Bradshaw
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If you want your
children to keep their feet on the ground,
put some responsibility on
their shoulders.
Abigail van
Buren
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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.
Charles
Buxton
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When
we list the creative qualities of children, we discover
that they express creative values that adults might well
use in building peace.
Here are some of those values:
* The playful attitude;
* Believing the unbelievable;
* Imagination;
* Love and forgiveness;
* Curiosity and openness;
* Simplicity;
* Faith and trust;
* Good will;
* Joy, fun, and laughter;
* Goodness;
* Eagerness and enthusiasm;
* Prayer;
* Loyalty;
* Belief in dreams and myths.
In our search for peace let us apply the creative wisdom
and spirit of children. . . to simplify the complex, to
come down to earth to save the earth, to practice the
ABC's of human relationships.
Wilferd
A. Peterson
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Children
are not things to be molded,
but are people to be unfolded.
Jess Lair
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If
you can't hold children in your arms,
please hold them in your
heart.
Mother Clara
Hale
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What's
done to children,
they will do to society.
Karl Menninger |
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What
a parent says to his or her children is not heard
by the world; but it will be
heard by posterity.
Jean
Paul Richter
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If children are to keep alive
their inborn sense of wonder, they need
the companionship of at least
one adult who can share it, rediscovering
with them the joy, excitement,
and mystery of the world we live in.
Rachel
Carson
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Showing we love our children is important.
We can feel love in our hearts
but we must also express our love and allow our children to
express their
love for us. In this busy world we live in, it is easy to
let the days and weeks
flow through our fingers and forget to say and to show, I love
you. Today,
I express my love for my children. I love them, I tell them
that I love them,
and I show it. Children are full-fledged human beings
and they have a right to recognition and support.
unattributed
Happiness One Day at a Time
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The innocence
of children is their wisdom, the simplicity of children is
their egolessness. The freshness of the child is the
freshness of your
consciousness, which never becomes old, which always remains
young.
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The
fact of the matter is that many children see. . . . Most of
those who see
are considered to be oddballs and every effort is made to
correct them.
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Children learn about
the nature of the world from their family. They
learn about
power and about justice, about peace and about compassion
within the
family. Whether we oppress or liberate our children in our
relationships with
them will
determine whether they grow up to oppress
and be oppressed or to
liberate and be liberated.
Desmond Tutu
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A Prayer for the World's Children
Ina Hughs
We pray for children
who sneak popsicles before supper,
who erase holes in math workbooks,
who can never find their shoes.
And we pray for those
who stare at photographers from behind barbed wire,
who can't bound down the street in a new pair of sneakers,
who never "counted potatoes,"
who are born in places where we wouldn't be caught dead,
who never go to the circus,
who live in an X-rated world.
We pray for children
who bring us sticky kisses and fistfuls of dandelions,
who hug us in a hurry and forget their lunch money.
And we pray for those
who never get dessert,
who have no safe blanket to drag behind them,
who watch their parents watch them die,
who can't find any bread to steal,
who don't have any rooms to clean up,
whose pictures aren't on anyone's dresser,
whose monsters are real.
We pray for children
who spend all their allowances before Tuesday,
who throw tantrums in the grocery store and pick at their
food,
who like ghost stories,
who shove dirty clothes under the bed and never rinse out
the tub,
who get visits from the tooth fairy,
who don't like to be kissed in front of the carpool,
who squirm in church or temple and scream in the phone,
whose tears we sometimes laugh at and whose smiles can
make us cry.
And we pray for those
whose nightmares come in the daytime,
who will eat anything,
who have never seen a dentist,
who aren't spoiled by anyone,
who go to bed hungry and cry themselves to sleep,
who live and move, but have no being.
We pray for the children who want to be carried and for
those who must,
for those who never give up and for those who don't
get a second chance, for those we smother. . . and for
those who will grab the hand of anyone kind enough to
offer it.
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If
nothing has helped you decide, go ask a child. Children know
what
they
need, and more surprisingly, the know what we need.
Adults think. Kids
respond with their feelings. They don't think about
what you will
think of
their answer, so they just speak the truth--if you can
get to them
before
junior high school age. At that time, they grow up,
stop feeling
loved, become
depressed and start thinking--and what they are thinking about worries me.
Bernie Siegel
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The time and
the quality of the time that their parents devote to them
indicate to children the degree to which they are valued by their
parents. . . . When children know that they are valued, when they
truly feel valued in the deepest parts of themselves, then they
feel valuable. This knowledge is worth more than any gold.
M. Scott Peck
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Children are the artisans
of joy. With their miniature bodies, the laugh and run
and roll about, they bounce and take off in all directions.
They get agitated
when you take them into your arms, and they are so full of energy
that you spot
them as soon as they enter a room. They like touching and
tasting everything
they come into contact with. And they can look into your
eyes with an honesty
that is so charming, that for a second you'll wonder how to
respond. They do
so many funny things. . . Life is full of ridiculous things and
children
have the gift of seeing them clearly.
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We
inculcate in our children the sensibilities of raccoons, a
fascination
with shiny objects and an appetite for garbage, and then carp
about "the
texting generation" as if thirteen- and fourteen-year-olds who
couldn't
boil an egg are capable of creating a culture. They grow on
what we feed
them. It has never been otherwise. The only thing that
changes is the food.
Garret Keizer
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Children
thrive best in an atmosphere of genuine love, undergirded by
reasonable, consistent discipline. . . . Loving discipline
works! It stimulates
tender affection, made possible by mutual respect between a parent
and
a child. It bridges the gap which otherwise separates family
members
who should love and trust each other.
Charles Dobson
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Perhaps
God gives us children not so much to perpetuate the human race;
God gives us children to give us companions who will make every possible
effort
to help us remember to be fully present and to live in the present.
Children are
the ultimate reminders that life is nothing more than a process, and
that as we
participate in it, it changes.
Children are willing to take on people who have
started to become static, to busy themselves with unimportant things,
and to lose contact with the world around them.
We are given children to help us to remember to live our lives,
not just rush through them.
Anne Wilson Schaef
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