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“We find that even the parents who justify spanking to themselves are defensive and embarrassed about it....I suspect that deep inthe memory of every parent are the feelings that had attended his own childhood spankings, the feelings of humiliation, of helplessness, of submission through fear. The parent who finds himself spanking his own child cannot dispel the ghosts of his own childhood.”

Children Feelings Parent Memories Childhood Style Ghost Justify Suspects Embarrassed Humiliation Submission Helplessness Spanking Parenting Styles

Author:Selma Fraiberg

“We have good reason to believe that memories of early childhood do not persist in consciousness because of the absence or fragmentary character of language covering this period. Words serve as fixatives for mental images. . . . Even at the end of the second year of life when word tags exist for a number of objects in the child's life, these words are discrete and do not yet bind together the parts of an experience or organize them in a way that can produce a coherent memory.”

Source: The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood

“The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience.”

Men Children Realizing Education Childhood Every Man Unconscious Sympathy Remembrance Defects Supplies Personal Experiences

Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

“As we try to change, we will discover within us a fierce struggle between our loyalty to that battle-scarred victim of his own childhood, our father, and the father we want to be. We must meet our childhood father at close range: get to know him, learn to forgive him, and somehow, go beyond him.”

Knows Want Trying Children Father Struggle Childhood Style Identity Battle Our Children Victim Forgiving Loyalty Range Fierce Our Father Learn To Forgive Parenting Styles

Author:Augustus Napier

“When we raise our children, we relive our childhood. Forgotten memories, painful and pleasurable, rise to the surface.... So each of us thinks, almost daily, of how our own childhood compares with our children's, and of what our children's future will hold.”

Thinking Children Memories Childhood Future Our Children Raises Rose Forgotten Painful Surface Compare

Book:Web of Life: Weaving the Values That Sustain Us

Source: Web of Life: Weaving the Values That Sustain Us

“I believe, when in my behavior or in relationships or in the way I react to something, that I'm still dealing with some leftover stuff from my childhood, but the good thing is now, because I have learned so much from the Bible, I can tell when I'm behaving wrong and when I'm not, and it doesn't take me very long to realize that's out of fear, or that's because I was controlled as a child, and I can make a conscious decision to behave the way I know I should behave.”

Knows Way Should Believe Children Long Stills I Can I Believe Stuff Realizing Decision Childhood Behavior Conscious Good Things My Children Behave Controlled Take Me I Have Learned

Author:Joyce Meyer

“I think there is something barbaric in children, and it's missing in lots of books for them because we don't like to think of it. We want them to be happy [but] childhood is a very tough time.”

Thinking Want Children Book Childhood Missing Tough Tough Times Barbaric

Author:Maurice Sendak

“Men are taught from childhood that they are weak and sinners. Teach them that they are all glorious children of immortality, even those who are the weakest in manifestation.”

Men Children Teach Childhood Strength Taught Weak Immortality Manifestation Glorious Sinner

Book:Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind

Source: Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind

“The thing that I remember the most in my childhood was the love of family and the discipline in the family. My father and mother both were disciplinarians, and they didn't mind using the rod. Maybe because I was the oldest child I always felt I got much more of it than anybody else.”

Mind Children Remember Mother Father Felt Childhood Discipline My Children Family Love Oldest Child

Author:Billy Graham

“Parents don't want their children to lose that purity and innocence of childhood. We want to bottle that and hold onto that, but it's impossible.”

Want Children Parent Loses Impossible Childhood Innocence Purity Bottles Purity And Innocence

Author:Pete Docter

“The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.”

Years Children Known Four Childhood Poet Four Years Innate

Book:Chimneysmoke

Source: Chimneysmoke

“Do not mistake a child for his symptom.”

Children Wisdom Mistake Childhood Advice Triumph Symptoms Hateful Stages Of Development

Book:Childhood and Society

Source: Childhood and Society

“Who knows whether there may not be a moment in childhood when the world changes forever, like making a face when the clock strikes?”

Knows World May Children Moments Faces Forever Childhood Strikes Clock

Book:The Collected Edition: Our man in Havana

Source: The Collected Edition: Our man in Havana

“Children make you confront your own childhood. Which I think is common. Suddenly you're remembering your own parents as parents, not to mention the fact that you're confronted by them as grandparents. So you also have that terrible shock, a mirror image of your own. You suddenly seem to be so helpless in the face of young children. And you think, "How did you ever bring up me?"”

Thinking Children Facts Seems Remember Faces Young Parent Common Childhood Terrible Mirrors Shock Helpless Grandparent Young Children Mirror Image

Author:Sam Mendes

“Giving homeless children the chance to be educated, giving them this ticket to their futures, is so wonderful. They will have the chance to not repeat the suffering of their childhoods in their own families. They can build secure and safe lives for themselves and their children.”

Giving Children Suffering Chance Wonderful Childhood Safe Educated Secure Repeats Tickets Homeless

Author:Laura Bush

“What masquerades as sex education is not education at all. It is selective propaganda which artificially encourages children to participate in adult sex, while it censors out the facts of life about the unhappy consequences. It is robbing children of their childhood.”

Children Facts Sex Childhood Adults Consequence Unhappy Propaganda Facts Of Life Selective Robbing Masquerade Sex Education

Author:Phyllis Schlafly

“I always entreat the good Lord to give me my childhood back, that is to say, to grant that I may see nature and render it like a child, without prejudice.”

Giving May Children Lord Childhood Give Me Prejudice My Children Grants

Author:Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

“I do think it's good to remember that childish things are made for children, and that, however pleasantly lurid the promise of a return to the clarity of childhood may be, an infatuation with the childish reveals only that one has failed to grow past it.”

Thinking May Children Made Past Remember Grows Childhood Return Promise Clarity Infatuation Childish Things

Author:Lauren Faust

“Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child's life were crucial. Education should start earlier than age seven, within the family. It should not be so hard as to give the child an aversion to learning. Rather, these early lessons would take the form of play--that embryonic notion of kindergarten.”

Giving Should Years Children Hard Play Age Form Childhood Lessons Seven Notion Educational Crucial Rome Aversion Kindergarten Early Childhood Early Childhood Education

Author:C. Sommerville

“Children became an obsessive theme in Victorian culture at the same time that they were being exploited as never before. As the horrors of life multiplied for some children, the image of childhood was increasingly exalted. Children became the last symbols of purity in a world which was seen as increasingly ugly.”

World Children Lasts Culture Childhood Horror Ugly Symbols Purity Theme Obsessive Exalted Victorian

Author:C. Sommerville

“A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.”

Children Childhood Genius Drunk Newness

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“The wild, the absurd, the seemingly crazy: this kind of thinking is where new ideas come from ... The people capable of such playful thought carry forward their childish qualities and childhood dreams, applying them in areas where most of us get stuck, victims of our adult seriousness. Staying a child isn't easy.”

People Thinking Kind Children Ideas Dream Easy Quality Crazy Childhood Capable Adults Areas Victim Stuck Absurd Staying New Ideas Seriousness Childhood Dreams

Author:Nicholas Negroponte

“I would injure no man, and should provoke no resentment. I would relieve every distress, and should enjoy the benedictions of gratitude. I would choose my friends among the wise and my wife among the virtuous, and therefore should be in no danger from treachery or unkindness. My children should by my care be learned and pious, and would repay to my age what their childhood had received.”

Men Should Children Care Age Enjoy Wise Wife Childhood Danger Gratitude My Friends My Wife My Children Resentment Virtuous Provoking Distress Pious Treachery Unkindness Benediction

Book:Rasselas

Source: Rasselas

“I am concerned that my children will grow up sheltered from the public. I am concerned that the children get to experience childhood and youth in their time without constant monitoring. It has been very important for both the Crown Prince and myself.”

Children Has Beens Important Grows Growing Up Childhood Youth Concerned Constant My Children Crowns Monitoring

Author:Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway

“Some children lack tools to see their course in the world in far-sighted ways. Just introducing school vouchers won't change that. You have to have nurse-home partnerships, early childhood education, mentoring programs and so on. People learn from people they love.”

People World Way Children Home School Courses Childhood Program Tools Nurse Introducing Partnership Mentoring Early Childhood Early Childhood Education Vouchers

Author:David Brooks

“Implanting spiritual ideas in children is very important. Many people live their entire lives according to the concepts that are implanted in them in childhood. When children learn they will get the most attention and love through doing constructive things, they will tend to stop doing destructive things. Most important of all, remember that children learn through example. No matter what you say it is what you do that will have an influence on them.”

People Children Important Ideas Matter Remember Spiritual Attention Influence Childhood Example Concepts And Love No Matter What Destructive Constructive Attention And Love

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.”

Children Whole Childhood Possibility Remains Solitary Recovering Reverie Reimagining

Author:Gaston Bachelard

“I labored for eight years thinking that I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book.”

Thinking Writing Years Looks Children Book Written Childhood Adults Eight Publishers Writing A Book Nostalgic Children's Books

Author:Jeff Kinney

“A father must lead his children; but first he must learn to follow. He must laugh with them but remember the ache of childhood tears. He must hold the past with one hand and reach to the future with the other so there can be no generation gap in family love.”

Firsts Children Hands Past Remember Father Laughing Generations Childhood Tears Gaps Ache Family Love Generation Gap

Book:Quiet Moments for Women: A Daily Devotional

Source: Quiet Moments for Women: A Daily Devotional

“Most people put their childhood away as if it was an old hat. They forget it as if it was a phone number that does not apply anymore. They think about their life as if it was a salami which they are eating slice by slice and then they become grown-ups, but what are they now? Only those who grow up and still remain children are real human beings.”

People Ifs Thinking Humans Children Doe Stills Real Grows Human Beings Forget Numbers Growing Up Childhood Eating Phones Hats Forget It Phone Numbers Real Human Salami

Author:Erich Kastner

“Values are most important. Democratic values have to be instilled from childhood and the child sees at an early stage in life in every situation in society.”

Children Important Values Situation Childhood Stage Democratic Democratic Values

Author:Ela Bhatt

“I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.”

Knows Children Care Young Pay Quality Focus Childhood Return Resources Investment Rate Health Care Young Children High Quality Dividends Betting Early Childhood

Author:J.B. Pritzker

“Messi, he's exceptional. When you watch him, you feel there's a child inside him and he is making some childhood dream come true. He's a Great Player, not only for today but also tomorrow.”

Feels Children Dream Today Watches Player Childhood Tomorrow Dreams Come True Exceptional Messi Childhood Dreams

Author:Eric Cantona

“A lot of the people who are supposed to be enforcing the crime, enforcing the law, are also criminals. They've suppressed something in their childhood and they don't want to think they themselves were sexually abused as children or they are abusing their own children and they're sitting on a bench and they either can't admit it, won't admit it, depending on how deeply buried it is.”

People Thinking Want Children Law Childhood Crime Sitting Criminals Supposed To Be Buried Benches Sexually

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Our children do not need a makeover, they just need to be understood. If you understand their emotional needs now, you can save them a lifetime of searching for what they never had as a child.”

“Creativity consists in maintaining a key aspect of the experience of childhood throughout one's life: the capacity to create and recreate the world. Creativity is the omnipotence of the child's mind.”

World Mind Children Creativity Childhood Keys Capacity Aspect Maintaining Omnipotence

Author:Donald Woods Winnicott

“Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children's growth and development, and in a parent's connection with their children.”

Children Important Parent Growth Growing Up Growing Childhood Development Connections My Children

Author:Ziggy Marley

“We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time in our life to live without play and fairytales! We give these things other names, to be sure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidence that they are the same things, for the child too regards play as his work and fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from a pedantic division of life into different stages - as though each brought something new.”

“Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands, But more when envy breeds unkind division: There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.”

Children Hands Politics Childhood Envy Confusion Ruins Division Unkind

Book:King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3

Source: King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3

“What a childhood I had. My parents sent me to a child psychiatrist. The kid didn't help me at all.”

Children Helping Kids Parent Childhood Help Me Psychiatrist

Book:It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs

Source: It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs

“I was born to a black childhood of confusion and poverty. The memory of that beginning influences my work today, It is impossible now to photograph a hungry child without remembering the hunger of my old childhood.”

Children Today Remember Black Born Memories Poverty Impossible Influence Childhood Photograph Hunger Hungry Confusion

Author:Gordon Parks

“As ephemeral as our footprints were in the sand along the river, so also were those moments of childhood caught in the photographs. And so will be our family itself, our marriage, the children who enriched it and the love that has carried us through so much. All this will be gone. What we hope will remain are these pictures, telling our brief story.”

Children Moments Stories Gone Childhood Rivers Photograph Caught Our Family Sand Footprint Ephemeral

Author:Sally Mann

“Childhood has been idealised as a lost garden paradise to which we can never return. We are excluded from this world of carelessness, innocence and unity. But the imaginary kingdom is nothing more than a projection of adult ideas and concerns onto the image, an expression of our own yearnings. By photographing children alone, divorced from any social setting, I allow them to exist on their own...I am exploring the equivocal connection between self and world.”

“Infinity imagines curiosity from the wild abyss - Only the child makes a swing-set view of the worlds upside down. Unwatched truth is the enchantment of childhood.And we never grow out of it.”

World Children Grows Views Imagine Childhood Truth Is Curiosity Infinity Swings Abyss Upside Down Enchantment World Upside Down Swing Sets

Author:Akiane Kramarik

“We already had an adopted daughter, 10-year-old Courtney, from my previous marriage. To me, there is no difference between 'natural' and 'adopted.' My own childhood showed me that when it comes to loving your kids, concepts like that don't apply. I was the oldest of six, and three of my siblings were adopted. Mom and Dad even took in foster children. 'There are no limits to how much you can love,' Dad always said.”

Years Children Said Kids Three Natural Differences My Own Childhood Mom Dad Limits Six Daughter Concepts Adopted Sibling Loving You Foster Children Mom And Dad My Siblings Courtney Dad Love

Author:Al Roker

“That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.”

Ifs Children States Shows Childhood Dread Decay Corpses Inner Child Children Playing Unhappy Childhood

Author:Brian Aldiss

“People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation?”

People Thinking Feels Trying Years Children Persons Sometimes Seems Certain Happened Childhood Strange Stranger Aliens Alienation Decipher

Author:Gunter Grass

“The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three seconds. Of course, this is how a child thinks of his mother.”

Thinking Children Moments Mother Three Courses Tree Childhood Scene My Favorite Seconds Tree Of Life

Author:Paul Auster

“My life would be a reflection of my childhood, but it isn't; it is a reflection of the dreams that I had as a child for a better life. When I look around and see the beautiful people and wonderful surroundings that are now my reality, I know that I have overcome so much. I still have plenty of fight left in me.”

People Knows Looks Children Stills Dream Reality Would Be Beautiful Fighting Left Wonderful Childhood Reflection Overcoming Plenty My Children Surroundings Better Life Beautiful People

Author:Andrea Navedo

“I think that comedy is a good defense for a child. Because you know childhood is a nightmare as it is. And so why not use comedy and being funny as a defense to get through your life as opposed to drugs, alcohol and good looks? Because those things are dangerous when your young.”

Thinking Knows Looks Children Use Young Comedy Childhood Dangerous Drug Defense Alcohol Nightmare Why Not Looking Good Being Funny

Author:Joy Behar

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