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“If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.”

Ifs Way War Matter Kids Talking Minutes Emotional Needed Shapes Adults Contact Life And Death One Minute Handy Emotional Life Way Of Talking

Author:Richard Louv

“I do not believe in a child world. It is a fantasy world. I believe the child should be taught from the very first that the whole world is his world, that adult and child share one world, that all generations are needed.”

World Should Firsts Believe Children Whole I Believe Fantasy Generations Share Taught Needed Adults Whole World Fantasy Worlds

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“A woman should never underestimate the power of the child in the man. Sometimes the child seems to be in the driver's seat at the very moment when all a man's adult judgment and insight is needed.”

Men Should Children Sometimes Moments Seems He Man Needed Judgment Adults Insight Seats Drivers Underestimate Never Underestimate

Book:What Every Woman Should Know About Men

Source: What Every Woman Should Know About Men

“I have enjoyed teaching most of the times that I have done it. I also like being by myself and making things and performing, so much that if I hadn't needed an income I probably wouldn't have done much teaching. Having said that, I think working with others, having to come up with art projects, and learning how to present your ideas in a clear way, to adults and/or kids is always interesting and rewarding.”

Ifs Thinking Way Art Said Ideas Done Kids Interesting Clear Teaching Needed Projects Adults Come Up Income Enjoyed Performing Working With Others Art Projects

Author:Ed Askew

“I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent.”

Grows Growing Up Needed Adults Independent Feds Spoons

Author:Paula Creamer

“Parents are never forgiven for not giving just the right response at the appropriate moment. Or, rather, there are particular times in the adolescent's or young adult's life, when a certain response is needed, and this need is not met, and the failure to meet this need is forever remembered, and is never forgiven.”

Needs Giving Moments Young Certain Parent Forever Particular Needed Mets Adults Response Young Adult Remembered Appropriate Adolescence Forgiven Never Forgive

Author:Terri E Apter

“Without my women friends, I wouldn't know anything. They've been my teachers and my mothers. My mother was a wonderful person, but she didn't give me a lot of the stuff I needed to advance myself as an adult woman. I have a really strong group of girlfriends, and we share a lot with one another - the complications of raising children, marriages, personal and physical struggles.”

Knows Giving Children Persons Mother Strong Stuff Struggle Teacher Wonderful Groups Share Needed Adults Give Me Girlfriend Raising Children Complication Wonderful Person

Author:Jamie Lee Curtis

“In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the young upon the same sort of association which keeps adults loyal to their group. They have no special devices, material, or institutions for teaching save in connection with initiation ceremonies by which the youth are inducted into full social membership. For the most part, they depend upon children learning the customs of the adults, acquiring their emotional set and stock of ideas, by sharing in what the elders are doing.”

Source: Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

“I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.”

People Thinking Needed Adults Recognizing Elders Sibling

Author:Robert Bly

“We had enough years in front of us to be serious and grown-up and respectable. Why rush it? But on the other hand we always complained when teachers and other adults treated us as kids. In fact there was nothing that annoyed me more. So it was a frustrating situation. What we needed was a two-sided badge that said 'Mature' on one side and 'Childish' on the other. Then at any moment we could turn it to whatever side we felt like being and the adults could treat us accordingly.”

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Book:Darkness Be My Friend

Source: Darkness Be My Friend

“Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe out most of their naturally joyous spirits and innocence were they staid enough to be considered mature. An adult was essentially a broken-down child.”

Children Enough Spirit Suffering Broken Needed Adults Notion Innocence Mature Wipe Joyous Broken Down

Book:Centaur Aisle

Source: Centaur Aisle

“Mr. Harinton was real. There were adults in the world who would actually make sacrifices for others - not just for their own families but for anyone who needed help. Nicholas had always had the impression that families looked after one another, and he had come to understand that, on rare ocassions, children would do the same... But this was different. What Mr. Harinton was doing certainly helped Nicolas - but it also simply felt right to Nicholas. It made him want to be exactly like Mr. Harinton himself.”

World Want Children Made Different Real Helping Felt Sacrifice Needed Adults Impression Sacrifice For Others Needed Help

Author:Trenton Lee Stewart