“When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school.” WorldChildrenSelfSchoolBeautifulJoyNightBornDifferencesSelf ConfidenceKateJoy And Happiness Author:Lynn Johnston
“You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian.” ThinkingChildrenMotherFatherSonDaughterMy FamilyAbuseChild AbuseBrutalAttacking Author:Lynn Johnston
“We are all born with wonderful gifts. We use these gifts to express ourselves, to amuse, to strengthen, and to communicate. We begin as children to explore and develop our talents, often unaware that we are unique, that not everyone can do what we're doing!” ChildrenUseCan DoBornWonderfulTalentUniqueCommunicate Book:It's the Thought That Counts:: A For Better Or For Worse Fifteenth Anniversary Collection Source: It's the Thought That Counts:: A For Better Or For Worse Fifteenth Anniversary Collection
“But even though all this was going on at home, if someone had tried to take me away and put me in a children's home, I couldn't have handled it. Even though my mother was very brutal, it was my home.” IfsChildrenHomeMotherTake MeBrutalTake Me Away Author:Lynn Johnston
