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

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

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“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

“I thought imaginary meant unseen so this imaginary friend could be anywhere. People who had them heard them speak but no one else could hear them. I wanted one and tried to conjure one in different ways but none came. Finally I just lied about having one. Which meant I had an imaginary imaginary friend.”

Childhood

Book:What It Is

Source: What It Is

“Det är en natt med strålande sol. Jag står i den täta skogen och ser bort mot mitt hus med sina disblåa väggar. Som om jag vore nyligen död och såg huset från en ny vinkel. Det har stått mer än åtti somrar. Dess trä är impregnerat med fyra gånger glädje och tre gånger sorg. När någon som bott i huset dör målas det om. Den döda personen målar själv, utan pensel, inifrån. På andra sidan är det öppen terräng. Förr en trädgård, nu förvildad. Stillastående brottsjöar av ogräs, pagoder av ogräs, framvällande text, uppsnärjdare av ogräs, en vikingaflotta av ogräs, drakhuvuden, lansar, ett ogräs-imperium! Över den förvildade trädgården flaxar skuggan av en bumerang som kastas gång på gång. Det har samband med en som bodde i huset långt före min tid. Nästan ett barn. En impuls utgår från honom, en tanke, en viljetanke: »skapa . . . rita . . .« för att hinna ut ur sitt öde. Huset liknar en barnteckning. En ställföreträdande barnslighet som växte fram därför att någon alltför tidigt avsade sig uppdraget att vara barn. Öppna dörren, stig in! Här inne är oro i taket och fred i väggarna. Över sängen hänger ett amatörsegel, föreställande ett skepp med sjutton segel, fräsande vågkammar och en vind som den förgyllda ramen inte kan hejda. Det är alltid så tidigt här inne, det är före vägskälen, före de oåterkalleliga valen. Tack för det här livet! Ändå saknar jag alternativen. Alla skisser vill bli verkliga. En motor på vattnet långt borta tänjer ut sommarnattens horisont. Både glädje och sorg sväller i daggens förstoringsglas. Vi vet det egentligen inte, men anar det: det finns ett systerliv till vårt liv, som går en helt annan trad. Medan solen brinner bakom öarna.”

Childhood Memory Parallel Lives

Author:Tomas Tranströmer

“Being able to freely explore my identity through aesthetic and expressive play is a joy. Why on earth would we seek to deny that to children, the very people for whom play was not only invented but who are its most ingenious architects?”

Play Childhood Self Identity Early Childhood Child Development Gender Expression Identity Expression

Book:Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship

Source: Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship

“Many Black women experienced harsh childhoods in which we did not receive a lot of affection or feel seen or welcome to fully express our emotions, thoughts, and opinions.”

Childhood Expression Trauma Parenthood Black Women

Book:Black Girls Breathing: Heal from Trauma, Combat Chronic Stress, and Find Your Freedom

Source: Black Girls Breathing: Heal from Trauma, Combat Chronic Stress, and Find Your Freedom

“My education wasn't at Northwestern. It was living in this house for twenty-five years.”

Childhood

Book:Proof

Source: Proof

“Mẹ and Ba never took us on vacations or signed us up for summer activities. Tommy and I never questioned why—it was all the time, money, and effort that our parents simply didn’t have for us. So we made do with what we had in the house and the backyard.”

Childhood

Book:What Hunger

Source: What Hunger

“We are born. And begin to remember. An aunt throws up out a car window. A cigarette burns my foot. A dying relative screams from a back bedroom. These are my first memories. The things my brain decided I should never forget.”

Brain Childhood Memory

Book:Southern Gothic Children's Book: A Rural Gloom Graphic Novel

Source: Southern Gothic Children's Book: A Rural Gloom Graphic Novel

“किताबों से निकल कर तितलियाँ ग़ज़लें सुनाती हैं टिफ़िन रखती है मेरी माँ तो बस्ता मुस्कुराता है kitāboñ se nikal kar titliyāñ ġhazleñ sunātī haiñ tiffin rakhtī hai merī maañ to basta muskurātā hai”

Love Inspirational Mother Childhood

Author:Siraj Faisal khan

“Of all the benefits that come from having endured childhood (for it is something to which we must submit, no matter how beautiful we find it, no matter how enjoyable it has been), certainly among them will be the garden and the desire to be involved with gardening.”

Inspirational Nature Childhood Spring Garden Gardening Flowers

Book:In the Garden: Essays on Nature and Growing

Source: In the Garden: Essays on Nature and Growing

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