You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
Madeleine L'EngleTags: books writing writers children difficult grown-ups write
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
George Bernard ShawChildren begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Oscar WildeTo lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar WildeTags: humor paraphrased parents children
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Franklin D. RooseveltTags: future children childhood parenting parenthood
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
Norman DouglasTags: children
I like children. If they're properly cooked.
W.C. FieldsTags: children
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
Margaret MeadTags: individuality people children delightful loathsome stereotypes
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself...
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.
Tags: inspirational children
Babies are soft. Anyone looking at them can see the tender, fragile skin and know it for the rose-leaf softness that invites a finger's touch. But when you live with them and love them, you feel the softness going inward, the round-cheeked flesh wobbly as custard, the boneless splay of the tiny hands. Their joints are melted rubber, and even when you kiss them hard, in the passion of loving their existence, your lips sink down and seem never to find bone. Holding them against you, they melt and mold, as though they might at any moment flow back into your body.
But from the very start, there is that small streak of steel within each child. That thing that says "I am," and forms the core of personality.
In the second year, the bone hardens and the child stands upright, skull wide and solid, a helmet protecting the softness within. And "I am" grows, too. Looking at them, you can almost see it, sturdy as heartwood, glowing through the translucent flesh.
The bones of the face emerge at six, and the soul within is fixed at seven. The process of encapsulation goes on, to reach its peak in the glossy shell of adolescence, when all softness then is hidden under the nacreous layers of the multiple new personalities that teenagers try on to guard themselves.
In the next years, the hardening spreads from the center, as one finds and fixes the facets of the soul, until "I am" is set, delicate and detailed as an insect in amber.
Tags: children motherhood babies parenting vulnerability
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