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“Perhaps we should sometimes resist analysing what it is to be childish and instead develop ways to be alongside children that allow us to feel a little more what it is to be childish.”

Book:Schemas in the Early Years

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“He cradles the egg like treasure and shows me the catalog of the Viking bearded seal figurines. Before this series, Kinder launched the Russian bears, the Canadian caribou, the French poodles—I remember a mime, a pastry chef, and a can-can dancer with a jaunty red beret—the Majorcan hedgehogs, and the Egyptian camels, painted to resemble the gods of hieroglyphs. Ridiculous trinkets forming an international circus of moronic animals.”

Childhood Short Story Women S Fiction Short Story Collection Mature Main Character Chocolate Egg

Book:The Kindness of Terrible People and Other Stories

Source: The Kindness of Terrible People and Other Stories

“Mimaki occasionally spoke to Etsuko, who seemed lost among all the adults. As a matter of fact, she was far from bored. She was a high-strung child, but at such times she would be turning an innocent gaze on the adults around her and studying in detail their gestures, speech, and expressions, and their clothes down to the smallest accessory.”

Childhood Japan Relatable

Author:Junichiro Tanizaki; Edward Seidensticker

“Me questiono se todos os adultos atuam e na verdade nunca saíram da infância em seus gestos e vazios.”

Childhood Adulthood

Book:Degola

Source: Degola

“What she most wanted was to blend in with her background by changing color and shape, to remain inconspicuous and not easily remembered, this was how she had protected herself since childhood.”

Childhood

Book:1Q84

Source: 1Q84

“If you want more joy in your daily life, smile at the people you meet in the street, the woman sitting beside you on the bus or standing next to you in the queue at the airport, the waiter who brings your food, your colleagues or your employer. There’s a great chance they’ll smile back.”

Happiness Health Lifestyle Vitality

Book:10 Years Younger in 10 Weeks

Source: 10 Years Younger in 10 Weeks

“They investigate the meaning of inert objects and dumb pets and they poke at family privacy. They learn to see things twice.”

Childhood Photography Digital Age

Book:Underworld

Source: Underworld

“Unable to imagine you will ever advance past the pencil line on the kitchen wall your mother has drawn to mark your height.”

Childhood

Book:Underworld

Source: Underworld

“A good book is a bridge: between a child and the world, between a child and their parent”

Love Feelings Childhood Mindfulness Emotions

Book:Learning to Love: Teach Young Kids How to Express Love with Words and Actions (Emotions & Feelings for Ages 3–6)

Source: Learning to Love: Teach Young Kids How to Express Love with Words and Actions (Emotions & Feelings for Ages 3–6)

“Stuart Dybeck wrote a book called ‘Childhood and Other Neighborhoods’ and I think this begins to describe it, the idea of our childhood as a neighborhood with something like streets and houses, schoolyards and cemeteries, short cuts and long ways. It’s a good way to start, by thinking of childhood as a place rather than a time.”

Childhood

Book:What It Is

Source: What It Is

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