“I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old.” ThinkingYearsChildrenSometimesSeemsTypeDiseaseAdultsKidneysKidney Disease Author:Marianne Wiggins
“I think that there's a particular type of person who goes into children's theater, and then goes into theater in high school. There was something about the guys I knew in theater, we were all very vulnerable. You could tell that at some point we were made fun of.” ThinkingChildrenPersonsMadeSchoolGuyFunParticularTypeHigh SchoolTheaterVulnerable Author:Craig Brewer
“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
“You can raise good children in single parent households, and many of you perhaps here today come from that type of environment. It is possible and many do it in heroic situations, but it's much more difficult and the numbers move against us in a broad society.” ChildrenTodayMovingParentDifficultNumbersSituationEnvironmentTypeRaisesBroadsHeroicHouseholdSingle Parent Author:Sam Brownback
“In certain circumstances where he experiments in new types of conduct by cooperating with his equals, the child is already an adult. There is an adult in every child and a child in every adult. ... There exist in the child certain attitudes and beliefs which intellectual development will more and more tend to eliminate: there are others which will acquire more and more importance. The later are not derived from the former but are partly antagonistic to them.” ChildrenCertainBeliefAttitudeTypeDevelopmentCircumstancesIntellectualAdultsImportanceExperimentsFormerAcquireCooperatingIntellectual Development Book:The Moral Judgement of the Child Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child