Quotes About Child

I realize that in giving birth, managing a household, raising a child, and composting potato peels in a city, I have learned some things about wildness that even Thoreau could not have known.

For the most part, mental illness is caused by an absence of or defect in the love that a particular child required from its particular parents for successful maturation and spiritual growth. It

To the child, abandonment by its parents is the equivalent of death.

It was a troubled night, the last they spent in the castle. Not many slept. But the lord of it had long understood that what could cease to be his never had been his, and slept like a child.

Lords of blue and Lords of gold, Lords of wind and waters wild, Lords of time that's growing old, When will come the season mild? When will come blue Madoc's child?

It is the pattern throughout Creation. One child, one man, can swing the balance of the universe.

O God, here, as so often, I cannot help. Let me not forget she is your child and your concern makes mine as nothing.

When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.

She wanted to say, no. She wanted to say, I have a son, there is a child, this cannot happen. Because you know that no one will ever love them like you do. You know that no one will look after them like you do. You know that it's an impossibility, it's unthinkable that you could be taken away, that you will have to leave them behind.

The studies show essentially that a child is better off in a good neighborhood in a troubled family than he or she is in a troubled neighborhood in a good family.

We accept the fact that being a parent requires a fundamental level of trust in the community of people around your child. If every coach is assumed to be a podophile, then no parent would ever let their child leave the house. And no sane person would ever volunteer to be a coach. We default to truth even when that decision carries terrible risks because we have no choice. Society cannot function otherwise.

Teacher effects dwarf school effects: your child is actually better off in a bad school with an excellent teacher than in an excellent school with a bad teacher.

We often think of authority as a response to disobedience: a child acts up, so a teacher cracks down. Stella's classroom, however, suggests something quite different: disobedience can also be a response to authority. If the teacher doesn't do her job properly, then the child will become disobedient. "With

Each child is a new being, a potentialprophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark of light.... Whoare we to decide that it is hopeless (impossible)?

When we lose our spiritual child then that is when we have grown old.

There are three qualities that every individual must have to achieve success: a Monk's patience, a Warrior's courage, a Child's imagination.

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject.

The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.

Don't set your wit against a child.

The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.

The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher.

Every child grows; everything depends on the teacher.