“I am very sure that my children thrive on structure and need boundaries. I know my children need to know what time they are going to bed or how many more minutes until they are leaving for school, and so I have imposed a structure that allows them to know where they are all day long, every day in life.” KnowsNeedsChildrenLongSchoolMinutesBedStructureLeavingBoundariesMy ChildrenThrive Author:Jessica Seinfeld
“Cry to god. If you do that just for a couple minutes with your whole being, just like a child who so badly wants a cookie. You will break through the barrier of the mind.” IfsWantMindChildrenWholeBreakMinutesCryCoupleBarriersCookiesVisualizationBreak Through Author:Frederick Lenz
“Typing is an essential skill, but it can be painful. Some children just don't know where the letters are. Typing a three-page story, when they have to spend minutes hunting for every letter, can take forever. Yet we tend to assume that children can type, partly because quite a lot of us know where quite a lot of the letters are, so we assume that children do, too.” KnowsChildrenStoriesThreeForeverMinutesTypeSkillsEssentialsPagesLettersAssumingPainfulHuntingTyping Author:Susan Mitchell
“Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.” ChildrenMinutesSeven Author:Barbara Kingsolver