“What children and teens need most in stressful situations, especially when they make mistakes, ‘misbehave,’ experience ‘failure,’ or cry for any reason (including what we might call a ‘temper tantrum’), is a hug and being told, “You matter to me, I love you so much. I’m here for you. Let’s figure this out together.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“Within every silence, there is a hidden call: ‘Listen to me with your heart.”
Source: The Season of Words: 1.1-1.2
“If ever a child makes a mistake, no matter how big, they need to hear in words and loving actions, “Even though you made a mistake you are loved. There are consequences to your actions, and I’m here for you. I know you are just learning how to be in life. Let me help you navigate through life.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“Your parents’ behavior has nothing to do with whether you are lovable or not. If another child, instead of you, had been born to your parents, they would have treated them in the same way.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“You can choose to let go of the need for your parents or family to be conscious or to know how to meet your needs. They could not and may never be able to meet some of your needs due to their own limitations.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“German teachers have shown how the very plays of children can be made instrumental in conveying to the childish mind some concrete knowledge in both geometry and mathematics. The children who have made the squires of the theorem of Pythagoras out of pieces of coloured cardboard, will not look at the theorem, when it comes in geometry, as on a mere instrument of torture devised by the teachers; and the less so if they apply it as the carpenters do. Complicated problems of arithmetic, which so much harassed us in our boyhood, are easily solved by children seven and eight years old if they are put in the shape of interesting puzzles. And if the Kindergarten — German teachers often make of it a kind of barrack in which each movement of the child is regulated beforehand — has often become a small prison for the little ones, the idea which presided at its foundation is nevertheless true. In fact, it is almost impossible to imagine, without having tried it, how many sound notions of nature, habits of classification, and taste for natural sciences can be conveyed to the children’s minds; and, if a series of concentric courses adapted to the various phases of development of the human being were generally accepted in education, the first series in all sciences, save sociology, could be taught before the age of ten or twelve, so as to give a general idea of the universe, the earth and its inhabitants, the chief physical, chemical, zoological, and botanical phenomena, leaving the discovery of the laws of those phenomena to the next series of deeper and more specialised studies.”
Source: Fields, Factories, and Workshops - Or Industry Combined with Agriculture and Brain Work with Manual Work: With an Excerpt from Comrade Kropotkin by Victor Robinson
“Parents pray for your children.”
“If you had been born as your parents, you would have made the same choices that they did and had been as stuck as they were. Forgive them for being born into a time of relative darkness without the resources and consciousness that you have today.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“Deus nos observa o tempo todo, afirmou a sra. Farmer ao atravessarmos a biblioteca a caminho da sala do diretor. Mesmo quando pensamos que estamos sozinhos, Ele pode ver o que estamos fazendo. Fiquei pensando que estava no banheiro e torcendo para que aquilo não fosse verdade.”
Source: My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
“The difference between a child who is taught piano from force, even with ‘good’ intentions, is in stark contrast to a child who feels deeply inspired to learn music.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism