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“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.”

“The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.”

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Author:Fred Astaire

“If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”

“The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.”

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Book:Please Don't Eat the Daisies

Source: Please Don't Eat the Daisies

“Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.”

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Author:Maria Montessori

“I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.”

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Author:Susie Bright

“Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and skepticism of adulthood. Embrace the moment before it escapes from our grasp. For the only promise of childhood, of any childhood, is that it will someday end. And in the end, we must ask ourselves what we have given our children to take its place. And is it enough?”

Source: The Christmas Box Miracle: My Spiritual Journey of Destiny, Healing and Hope

“A Message to Children Who Have Read This Book - When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY.”

“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.”

“All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.”

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Author:Benjamin Spock

“It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it”

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Author:Robert Breault

“A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.”

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Author:Robert Breault

“We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'”

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Author:Sydney J. Harris

“My earliest childhood memory was watching my parents loosen the wheels on my stroller.”

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Book:I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me

Source: I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me

“A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.”

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Author:Frank A. Clark

“To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.”