Quotes About Nurture

begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.

To treat yourself as if you were someone you are responsible for helping is, instead, to consider what would be truly good for you. This is not "what you want." It is also not "what would make you happy.

The vital process of socialization prevents much harm and fosters much good. Children must be shaped and informed, or they cannot thrive. This fact is reflected starkly in their behavior: kids are utterly desperate for attention from both peers and adults because such attention, which renders them effective and sophisticated communal players, is vitally necessary.

TREAT YOURSELF LIKE SOMEONE YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR HELPING

Even the most assiduous of parents cannot fully protect their children, even if they lock them in the basement, safely away from drugs, alcohol and internet porn. In that extreme case, the too-cautious, too-caring parent merely substitutes him or herself for the other terrible problems of life. This is the great Freudian Oedipal nightmare. It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.

You could begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.

is far better to render Beings in your care competent than to protect them.

It is far better to render Beings in your care competent than to protect

Starker was saying that to be a guardian, you must be a gardener.

What madness to beget children!

La tierra es madre de todos, pero también da ponzoña

Cada individuo es el producto de dos factores: la herencia y la educación.

In learning to learn again, we can learn of this wisdom and allow our children (and so ourselves) to become the free, whole individuals this good earth has prepared us to be.

B]lood is the manure of the plant that we call genius.

As the baby grows bigger, she [wet nurse] will chew his meat for him.

All gardeners live in beautiful places, because they make them so.

With this life I give you protection," she told him. "Use it well to care for your Clan as a mother cares for her kits.

Leafpool says a kit needs to be seen before it can be named." "Then I must have been a prickly kit," Hollypaw

With this life I give you love," she murmured in her soft voice. "Use it well, for all the cats in your care

I was, as we all are, a child of my environment.

Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait.

The final proof as to whether a certain habitat form has a genetic basis or is entirely phenotypical can be found only through experiments.

the only art we can create is that which authentically reflects who we are. Our soul is the material for all we create. Thus, to nurture the artisan soul, essence is far more important than talent.

El bohío de la loma, bajo sus alas de paja, siente el frescor mañanero y abre sus ojos al alba. Vuela el pájara del nido. Brinca el gallo de la rama. A los becerros, aislados de las tetas de las vacas, les corre por el hocico leche de la madrugada. Las mariposas pululan —rubí, zafir, oro, plata...—: flores huérfanas que rondan buscando a las madres ramas...