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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.
There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.
As long as you can still be dissapointed, you are still young. -Sarah Churchill.
As long as you can still be dissapointed, you are still young. -Sarah Churchill.
A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to read more
A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the read more
It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their read more
They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc.
The child is father of the man.
The child is father of the man.
things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys.
things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys.
