Quotes About Childhood

Child labour was the norm. It is not a problem, or even a category, that most Romans would have understood. The invention of 'childhood' and the regulation of what work 'children' could do only came fifteen hundred years later and is still a peculiarly Western preoccupation.

Lily's room transformed into a treasure chest told from a child's perspective; minute details unearthed, bits and scraps of memory whose retelling left poignant longings, soft-spoken, reverent whispers, exposing more about the private life of Charles Blacksworth and his family than any detective ever could.

I have always tended to look to the special circumstances of my childhood whenever I felt unhappy or lacking in confidence, and yet it is not reasonable to attribute a degree of estrangement that is part of the general human condition to a particular idiosyncratic experience.

All the earth is made anew-- Far the false, and fair the true-- Where a little life begins, Free of sorrow, free of sins, And Baby comes.

To a child's ear, "mother" is magic in any language.

No one knows better than a Sister how we grew up, and who our friends, teachers and favorite toys were. No one knows better than she...

When I was a kid, we had a quicksand box in the backyard. I was an only child...eventually.

The brown bag, of course, had its imperfections. While some kids carried roast beef sandwiches, others had peanut butter. I have no way of knowing if all of those brown bags contained 'nutritionally adequate diets.' But I do know that those brown bags and those lunch pails symbolized parental love and responsibility.

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted. I did sort of think, you know, marriage did that. You see, I was brought up differently from the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy - that's it, successful, happy, and on time.

Don't be afraid, child, The stories are always there.

These were the places that Ama described in her stories, places where all the children of the tribe would be princes and princesses and their stomachs always full. It was a once-upon-a-time world that used to be. In

as a child she thought if she could just pull away the fence they would turn back into the beautiful horses they really were and escape to the old plains. she had hope in that power

The room closed in, dark and black and far from everything I had ever known. I felt like a child again, wishing I could curl into my mother's arms on a stormy night and she could whisper away my fears. The wind punched and thrashed against the shutters, unforgiving, and I felt something wet trickle down the side of my face. I reached up and swiped the salty wetness away. How quaint. How very quaint. Like believing some things last forever. A tear. As if that could make a difference.

Back when we were kids, the experts thought kids were protected if they couldn't access their most damaging memories. But now they know suppressed memories can cause all kinds of problems as an adult- anxiety, depression, PTSD, amnesia...

C'est fou, quand on a huit ans, il n'y a rien de tel qu'une pizza pepperoni pour vous rendre heureux.

Toddlers have limited capacity to understand the Lifebook as more than a story. However, the seed is planted for later understanding of and receptivity to information about their earliest days before becoming part of their adoptive family. The tone of voice and emotional demeanor of the adult telling the adoption story while showing the Lifebook is extremely important at this age. Respect, empathy, and support for everyone who has been part of the child's life history are important.

As a child grows, the Lifebook is used for a multitude of purposes, including helping a child deal with unresolved feelings as they surface. A child's Lifebook should be added to as he journeys through life. It also should be accessible to children any time they feel a need to thumb through it. The Lifebook, after all, belongs to the child.

To recreate the attachment cycle, the adoptive parent should initially provide for the child's needs on demand in the same way that the appropriately responsive parent meets the needs of a newborn on demand.

The loss of a parent is a young child's greatest fear. To be abandoned, whether through termination of parental rights, voluntary relinquishment, death, or any other means, is a child's worst nightmare come true.

When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.

What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.

Children often sang, adults seldom. At what age did the singing stop?

Although a firm swat could bring a recalcitrant child swiftly into line, the changes were usually external, lasting only as long as the swatter remained in view.