“I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn't believe the poems I'd bring in were mine because they were dark and sad. But I wrote about what I experienced in my childhood.” WritingBelieveDarkTeacherChildhoodMinesSixWriting Poetry Author:Mariah Carey
“since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary.” WayShouldChildrenBookIdeasCoursesChildhoodSixHundredInsightNew IdeasVocabulary Author:Joan Aiken
“I have the students for six hours a day. The community has them for 18 hours, plus prenatal and early childhood. I don't believe the schools create (the achievement gap), but our responsibility is not to add to it. We won't eliminate the gap until the community makes education a priority, but the schools can't wait for the community to do its part.” BelieveSchoolWaitingCommunityHoursResponsibilityChildhoodStudentsCommunicationAchievementSixAddDon't BelievePrioritiesPlusGapsEarly ChildhoodAchievement Gap Author:Bill Vaughan
“At six I lived in a graveyard full of dolls, avoiding myself, my body, the suspect in its grotesque house.” BodyHouseChildhoodSixSuspectsAvoidingDollsGraveyardGrotesque Author:Anne Sexton
“It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play, that the greatest change is evident. In the place of traditional, sometimes ancient childhood games that were still popular a generation ago, in the place of fantasy and make- believe play . . . today's children have substituted television viewing and, most recently, video games.” YearsBelieveChildrenStillsSometimesPlayMomentsAgeTodaySchoolGamesFantasyGenerationsChildhoodTelevisionSixFilledAncientVideoTraditionalTwelveEvidentMake Believe Book:Children Without Childhood Source: Children Without Childhood
“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.” YearsChildrenSaidKidsThreeNaturalDifferencesMy OwnChildhoodMomDadLimitsSixDaughterConceptsAdoptedSiblingLoving YouFoster ChildrenMom And DadMy SiblingsCourtneyDad Love Author:Al Roker
“Early on, my emotional work had to do with feeling unheard and invisible. My parents divorce at six, when I was six, really affected me. We moved around and I was with my mom and my sister. I have learned, by the way, there were amazing gifts that came out of that. For one, I'm living my childhood dream. I feel very fortunate.” WayFeelsFeelingsDreamParentChildhoodEmotionalMomSixMovedMy MomDivorceInvisibleFortunateAffectedMy SisterI Have LearnedUnheardChildhood DreamsParents Divorce Author:Daphne Zuniga
“There's spatial intelligence. they're, which end up being, people going into math or music. there's mechanical where you work well with your hands. There's an intelligence with language that would lead someone into writing. So it's not necessarily that you're six years old and you know you're going to be a lawyer Or you're going into tech startups or computers. It's something more elemental than that. It's that this is a skill, a way of thinking that comes naturally to me that I was drawn to and it was very clear in childhood.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWritingYearsWellsEndsHandsLanguageClearChildhoodSkillsSixComputerMathLawyerWay Of ThinkingElementalsSix Year OldsSpatial Author:Robert Greene
“I spent my childhood outdoors on my grandparents' farm. I learned to ride a motorbike when I was about six, a little PeeWee 50. I'd climb trees - there was a big weeping willow.” LittlesBigsTreeChildhoodSixClimbsFarmsGrandparentWeepingMotorbikeWillow TreesWeeping Willows Author:Miranda Kerr
“Each person decides in early childhood how he will live and how he will die... His trivial behavior may be decided by reason, but his important decisions have already been made: what kind of person he will marry, how many children he will have, what kind of bed he will die in... It is incredible to think, at first, that man's fate, all his nobility and all his degradation, is decided by a child no more than six years old, and usually three... (but) it is very easy to believe by looking at what is happening in the world today, and what happened yesterday, and seeing what will happen tomorrow.” ThinkingMenWorldYearsFirstsBelieveKindMayChildrenPersonsMadeImportantReasonHappensTodayDiesThreeEasyDecisionFateSeeingHappenedChildhoodEvolutionTomorrowBedBehaviorSixHappeningsDecidedIncrediblesYesterdayNobilityWorld TodayDegradationEarly ChildhoodSix Year OldsImportant Decisions Author:Eric Berne