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“I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and no sexual content beyond what you might find in a PG-rated movie – expressions of who likes whom, holding hands, and perhaps the occasional kiss. The idea that we should treat sexual orientation itself as an adults-only topic, however, is absurd. Non-heterosexual children exist. To pretend they do not, to fail to recognize that they have needs for support and validation like any child, would be bad teaching, bad writing, and bad citizenship.”

“A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil's environment who treats him with respect.”

Environment Teacher Adults Treats Pupils

Book:Up the Down Staircase

Source: Up the Down Staircase

“Young children were always so important to me. Adults should treat children with more respect. We should put more monies in our schools. I grew up on that side of the coin.”

Should Children Important School Young Sides Grew Grew Up Adults Treats More Money Coins Young Children

Author:Steve Wozniak

“Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions a youth about her parents as the seemingly inhumane way they treat her grandparents.”

People Way Young Parent Compassion Middle Youth Pride Adults Treats Tenderness Grandparent Elderly Avarice Middle Aged Disillusion Inhumane

Author:Louise J. Kaplan

“The new concept of the child as equal and the new integration of children into adult life has helped bring about a gradual but certain erosion of these boundaries that once separated the world of children from the word of adults, boundaries that allowed adults to treat children differently than they treated other adults because they understood that children are different.”

World Children Different Certain Equal Understood Concepts Adults Treats Boundaries Treated Integration Erosion

Author:Marie Winn

“So when I open the door on Halloween, I am confronted by three or four imaginary heroes, such as G.I. Joe, Conan the Barbarian and Oliver North, who would look very terrifying except that they are three feet tall and facing in random directions. They stand there silently for several seconds before an adult voice hisses from the darkness behind them: "Say 'Trick or treat!”

Looks Three Voice Behinds Darkness Four Doors Feet Hero Adults Treats Tricks Tall Seconds Imaginary Halloween Barbarians Conan Trick Or Treat

Book:The World According to Dave Barry

Source: The World According to Dave Barry

“If you treat a sick child as an adult and a sick adult as a child, it usually works out pretty well.”

Ifs Wells Children Wisdom Adults Treats Sick Work Out Sick Children

Author:Black Hawk

“Playfulness. We've baked Mallomars and Rice Krispies treats, made milkshakes, and even built a macaron cake in the shape of a Christmas tree. These items remind people of their childhood; we just re-create them with adult flavors.”

People Made Tree Childhood Shapes Adults Built Treats Cake Flavor Items Rice Playfulness Christmas Tree Milkshakes Rice Krispies

Author:David Castle

“We're not really sure why it [broken circadian rhythm] continues, but when they become adults, we usually have to treat it because many people need to get up early to go to work and they can't be sleeping until 11:00 or 12:00. So we use treatments like bright light therapy, melatonin, things like that that are very effective.”

People Needs Use Light Sleep Broken Adults Treats Get Up Rhythm Therapy Treatment Up Early Bright Lights Circadian Rhythm Melatonin

Author:Shelby Harris

“We have other opposite problems with circadian rhythms that can happen when you - a lot of times with older adults. They start to go to bed at 6:00, 7:00 at night and they wake up at 2:00 in the morning. And they're rhythms actually shift earlier, but sometime it can just kind of miss the mark and shift too much earlier and that's when we need to treat it with bright light.”

Needs Kind Problem Light Happens Night Morning Too Much Missing Bed Adults Opposites Treats Mark Wake Up Rhythm Bright Lights Circadian Rhythm Older Adults

Author:Shelby Harris

“What we do wrong with teenagers is we talk down to you instead of treating you as equals. Adults complain that you're not good listeners but really, adults are not listening to what you're trying to tell us. We're always trying to give you advice. We should treat you with lots of respect and dignity and groom you to be future leaders.”

Giving Should Trying Leader Advice Listening Adults Dignity Treats Complaining Teenager Listeners Always Trying Good Listener Future Leaders Dignity And Respect

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.”

Children Order Adults Treats Deny Punishment Height Absurdity Consolation Crime And Punishment Culprit

Author:Claude Levi-Strauss

“In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults.”

Children States Today Parent United Results United States Adults Treats Tendencies Unruly Large Family

Book:The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary

Source: The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary

“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.”

Years Said Two Enough Moments Facts Hands Kids Turns Felt Sides Situation Teacher Fronts Serious Needed Adults Treats Treated Mature Frustrating Respectable Annoyed Had Enough Badges

Book:Darkness Be My Friend

Source: Darkness Be My Friend

“I was frightened by the optimism of adults, their stupid trust in science to treat a troubled heart. Afraid of their obsession with believing they have to treat troubled kids. I just wanted them to leave me alone, so how come they didn't get it? But that's the way it always is.”

Way Believe Heart Kids Wanted Stupid Adults Optimism Treats Obsession Frightened Leaving Me Me Alone Leave Me Alone Troubled Heart

Author:Natsuo Kirino

“Calvin: Trick or treat! Adult: Where's your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak... Am I scary, or what?”