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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours read more
It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
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.
Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert read more
Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.
It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. read more
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15].
A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die read more
A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
