Quotes About Childhood

Nekada davno, u djetinjstvu, možda is toga što sam odrastao me?u knjigama i knjižarima, odlu?io sam da želim postati pisac i živjeti životom punim melodrame.

you never knew when the end of childhood was due. We shared the soup, a broth made from leftovers with bits of bread in it, surrounded by the sticky droning of radio soaps that filtered out through open windows into the church square.

Erikson felt that the early childhood years were critical in children's development of trust, autonomy

His father, that austere, unfeeling and untutored man, had insisted his sons polish their boots every evening. Flett has learned to be grateful for this early discipline. It kept him breathing as a boy, provided a pulse, gave order to vast incomprehension. Later he found other ways.

In childhood, she had had milk allergies, or so they'd thought. But either she'd never had them or had outgrown them or ice cream transcended all problems.

Her name was Janie and she loved her shoes and she loved her doggy back home and basically she loved everything. Hannah quickly tired of this kid's happiness.

When a child is little, they walk on your toes. When they grow up, they stomp on your heart.

and NPD stands for narcissistic personality disorder. It means that he's got exaggerated feelings of self-importance, a need for self-admiration, and a lack of empathy. People with that problem spend too much time worrying about success in everything, as well as their personal appearance. They tend to take advantage of the people around them. The problem usually starts early in childhood. He should've had some kind of therapy when he was a little boy.

Hi, Judy!" she called to the little girl, who was playing in the yard with a midget badminton set.

It all happened in a second. The three of them reached Baby at the same time. She lay crumpled down on the dirty sidewalk. Her skirt was over her head, showing her pink panties and her little white legs. Her hands were open—in one there was the prize from the candy and in the other the pocketbook. There was blood all over her hair ribbon and the top of her yellow curls. She was shot in the head and her face was turned down toward the ground.

It was like that kid had been born knowing how to read. He was only in the second grade but he loved to read stories by himself - and he never asked anybody else to read to him.

But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.

the sort of kid who steered his bicycle around snakes crossing the road

the hat.' He races off

It was one way she had found to fill her solitary childhood, but it was more than that; the act of creation gave substance and shape to her life. It made order out of the chaos.

Children need close friends to help them grow up, to discover things about themselves and about life. They also need close friends to keep them sane

Katie is like my calendar, watching her grow and change. She is growing up so fast, learning to have opinions of her own, learning that I don't have the answers to everything. And the moment a child begins to understand that, you know you're in trouble.

When people are kids they use their parents as some sort of measurement for how bad a situation is. When you fall on the ground really hard and you can't figure out whether it hurts or not you look to your parents. If they look worried and rush towards you, you cry. If they laugh and smack the ground saying, 'Bold ground,' then you pick yourself up and get on with it.

Ever since people are kids they use their parents as some sort of measurement for how bad a situation is.

Close your eyes and stare into the dark. My father's advice when I couldn't sleep as a little girl.

As for Dad, he was supposed to live forever. The one who could open all the jar lids nobody else could, who fixed whatever was broken, was supposed to do that forever. The man who let me sit on his shoulders, climb on his back, chase me around while making monster noises, throw me in the air and catch me, spin me around so much that I felt dizzy and fell over laughing.

Lots of kids in our neck of the woods call their grandfathers Papaw

It must be one of the worst things in the world, to see your child revealed as a selfish little sadist.

When my mother did fittings for her clients, I was hiding, looking at these beautiful ladies try on these fantastic clothes. I was dreaming as a small child to try these clothes on myself.