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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.
Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.
Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.
A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes read more
A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released. -Robert Penn Warren.
Children are poor men's riches.
Children are poor men's riches.
things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys.
things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys.
The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.
The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.
Behold, I was shapened in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. [Psalms 51:5].
Behold, I was shapened in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. [Psalms 51:5].
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.
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.
