As adults, we must ask more of our children than they know how to ask of themselves. What can we do to foster their open-hearted hopefulness, engage their need to collaborate, be an incentive to utilize their natural competency and compassion...show them ways they can connect, reach out, weave themselves into the web of relationships that is called community. . -Dawna Markova.
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The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it. -Margaret Fuller.
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If a child is to keep his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. -Rachel Carson.
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home. -Bill Cosby.
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home. -Bill Cosby.
Children are natural mimics: they act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners. -Anonymous.
Children are natural mimics: they act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners. -Anonymous.
You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. -John Plomp.
You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. -John Plomp.
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I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. -Harry S Truman.
Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.
Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.
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There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. -Hodding Carter.
