“Children, it should be repeated, are not pocket editions of adults, because childhood is a period of physical growth and development, a period of preparation for adult responsibility and public and private life. A program of children cannot be merely an adaptation of the program for adults, nor should it be curtailed during periods of depression or emergency expansion of other programs.” ShouldChildrenGrowthResponsibilityChildhoodDevelopmentPeriodsAdultsProgramPreparationPocketsExpansionEmergenciesAdaptationPrivate Life Author:Grace Abbott
“Good theories of the mind must span at least three different scales of time: slow, for the billions of years in which our brains have survivied; fast, for the fleeting weeks and months of childhood; and in between, the centuries of growth of our ideas through history.” YearsMindIdeasDifferentThreeGrowthBrainWeekChildhoodCenturyTheoryMonthsBillionsScalesFleeting Author:Marvin Minsky
“We humans undergo two major growth spurts: one during infancy and another from eleven to twelve until fifteen or sixteen--pubescence. Between the two is a relatively quiescent growth period in which most of the body takes a rest from growing while the brain continues to mature. This period of life is general referred to as childhood or, sometimes, latency.” HumansTwoSometimesBodyLife IsGrowthBrainGrowingChildhoodPeriodsMajorsMatureTwelveFifteenElevenSixteenInfancy Author:Louise J. Kaplan
“Parenthood brings profound pleasure and satisfactions--the unparalleled pleasure of caring so intensely for another human being, of watching growth, of reliving childhood, of seeing oneself in a new perspective, and of understanding more about life.” HumansUnderstandingGrowthHuman BeingsPleasureSeeingChildhoodPerspectiveProfoundOneselfSatisfactionCaringParenthoodNew Perspective Book:The Six Stages of Parenthood Source: The Six Stages of Parenthood
“Personal change, growth, development, identity formation--these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as part of adult life as well. Gone is the belief that adulthood is, or ought to be, a time of internal peace and comfort, that growing pains belong only to the young; gone the belief that these are marker events--a job, a mate, a child--through which we will pass into a life of relative ease.” WellsChildrenPainJobsYoungBeliefGrowthGoneGrowingChildhoodEventsIdentityDevelopmentOughtComfortAdultsTasksEaseInternalsRelativeMatesAdulthoodAdolescenceFormationMarkersGrowing PainsPersonal ChangeChange GrowthInternal Peace Author:Lillian B. Rubin
“The human brain is by no means fully formed at birth. It continues to shape itself through life, with the most intense growth occurring during childhood.” HumansMeanGrowthBrainChildhoodBirthShapesIntenseHuman Brain Book:Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ Source: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
“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.” ChildrenImportantParentGrowthGrowing UpGrowingChildhoodDevelopmentConnectionsMy Children Author:Ziggy Marley