“Through play, children experience a greater confidence in their bodies, surroundings and themselves. They become familiar with what they can and cannot do.”
Source: Play The Danish Way: A Guide to Raising Balanced, Resilient and Healthy Children through Play
“Always think of your child's age. Every age has a "theme" of what can be expected from it. Children are not small adults.”
Source: The Danish Way of Parenting: What the Happiest People in the World Know About Raising Confident, Capable Kids
“Children, like plants and flowers, are organic. We grow at different rates and have different needs and that's ok.”
Source: The Danish Way of Parenting: What the Happiest People in the World Know About Raising Confident, Capable Kids
“Agar kita bisa menyayangi anak, kita perlu memahami apa sebetulnya hakikat dari anak itu sendiri, baik secara fisik, psikologis, maupun hukum. Bagaimana anak dipandang dari ketiga sudut pandang itu.”
“People go to Kailash (At Manas Sarobar, China) hills. That is a very inaccessible place. Maximum people salute from a distant place. Kailash is nearly 15,600 feet high. Very rarely a few people can reach there and hear a sound. They think it is the sound of the hills or the god Mahadeva. But not at all. This sound is heard from inside the body if anybody goes to that altitude. When they return the sound vanishes. It is tough to understand this phenomenon.”
“Not Really," he said then lit a cigarette and handed it to me. I inhaled. Coughed. Wheezed. Gasped for breath. Coughed again. Considered vomiting. Grabbed the swinging bench, head spinning, and threw the cigarette to the ground and stomped on it, convinced my Great Perhaps did not involve cigarettes.”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“When you try to extinguish a tantrum by ignoring it, the first response you always get is called an extinction burst. People will do whatever it is you are trying to ignore louder, longer, and more enthusiastically. This might make you believe that ignoring them isn't working, but what it actually means is that it is.”
Source: Emotional Vampires: Dealing With People Who Drain You Dry
“Have you never known a cruel wind? What an easy, balmy, tropical life you must have! I never tease, madam! I coax, I beguile, I stomp, I throw tantrums, and for certain, I freeze — I am the Coldest and Harshest of all the Harsh Airs! I am the shiver of the world! But I do not tease. You can cause ever so much more trouble by taking folk seriously, asking just what they're doing and doing just what they ask.”
Source: The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
“She wanted to stomp her foot, throw a tantrum, throw a punch.”
Source: The Great Escape
“Denial has rented a room in my head and frequently stomps around slamming doors.”
Source: Awoken