“The child who would be an adult must give up any lingering childlike sense of parental power, either the magical ability to solveyour problems for you or the dreaded ability to make you turn back into a child. When you are no longer hiding from your parents, or clinging to them, and can accept them as fellow human beings, then they may do the same for you.” GivingHumansMayChildrenProblemWould BeTurnsParentHuman BeingsAbilityAcceptingGrowing UpGiving UpAdultsFellowsHidingClingingChildlikeParentalLingering Author:Frank Pittman
“There's no harm in a child crying: the harm is done only if his cries aren't answered. ...If you ignore a baby's signal for help, you don't teach him ndependence... What you teach him is that no other human being will take care of his needs” IfsNeedsHumansChildrenDoneHelpingCareHuman BeingsTeachCryBabyTake CareHarmSignals Author:Lee Salk
“We as a nation need to be reeducated about the necessary and sufficient conditions for making human beings human. We need to be reeducated not as parents--but as workers, neighbors, and friends; and as members of the organizations, committees, boards--and, especially, the informal networks that control our social institutions and thereby determine the conditions of life for our families and their children.” NeedsHumansChildrenNationsSocialParentHuman BeingsEducationSocietyConditionsMembersOrganizationInstitutionsWorkersDetermineNeighborOur FamilyBoardsSufficientCommitteesBeing HumanSocial InstitutionsNeighbors And Friends Author:Urie Bronfenbrenner
“What is the problem of women's freedom? It seems to me to be this: how to arrange the world so that women can be human beings, with a chance to exercise their infinitely varied gifts in infinitely varied ways, instead of being destined by the accident of their sex to one field of activity--housework and child-raising. And second, if and when they choose housework and child-raising to have that occupation recognized by the world as work, requiring a definite economic reward and not merely entitling the performer to be dependent on some man.” IfsMenWorldWayHumansChildrenProblemSeemsSexChanceHuman BeingsEconomicFieldsExerciseActivityRewardsAccidentsDependentOccupationPerformersDefiniteDestinedHouseworkIfs And Author:Crystal Eastman
“You become responsible for a human being, and a lot of people talk about how they've never felt love like this before. You hear all these things before you have a child, and they're all kind of true. It's just dealing with the overwhelming responsibility of like I'm the protector of this child that affected me the most.” PeopleHumansKindChildrenFeltHuman BeingsResponsibilityResponsibleAll KindsAffectedOverwhelmingProtector Author:Cobie Smulders
“Remember...that each child is a separate person, yours forever, but never fully yours. She can never be all you wished or wanted,or all you know she could be. But she will be a better human being if you can let her be herself.” IfsKnowsHumansChildrenPersonsWantedRememberHuman BeingsForeverIndividuality Author:Stella Chess
“Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.” FeelsHumansChildrenHuman BeingsPrivacyEntitled Author:Barbara Mertz
“I would rather be the child of a mother who has all the inner conflicts of the human being than be mothered by someone for whom all is easy and smooth, who knows all the answers, and is a stranger to doubt.” KnowsHumansChildrenMotherEasyHuman BeingsAnswersDoubtConflictStrangerSmoothInner Conflict Author:Donald Woods Winnicott
“We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores they chalk up. We have allowed quantitative standards, so central to the adult economic system, to become the principal yardstick for our definition of our children's worth.” HumansKindChildrenSchoolReadingHuman BeingsEducationEconomicStandardsAdultsIncreaseOur ChildrenDefinitionsScorePrincipalEconomic SystemsChalkYardsticks Author:Kenneth Keniston
“I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog, but I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.” GivingFeelsHumansChildrenHuman BeingsResponsibilityDogCircumstancesDecentAssistanceHesitation Author:Noam Chomsky
“For Jesus, it is clear, poverty is not the problem; it is the solution. Until human beings learn to live in naked contact and direct simplicity and equality with each other, sharing all resources, there can be no solution to the misery of the human condition and no establishment of God's kingdom. Jesus' radical and paradoxical sense of who could and who could not enter the Kingdom is even more clearly illustrated by his famous praise of children.” HumansChildrenProblemJesusHuman BeingsPovertyClearConditionsSolutionsResourcesDirectPraiseMiserySimplicityKingdomsNakedContactRadicalEstablishmentHuman ConditionParadoxical Author:Andrew Harvey
“If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.” IfsTryingBelieveHumansChildrenHuman BeingsDon't BelieveInnateRaising Children Book:Controversial Essays Source: Controversial Essays
“Black women, white women- all of them. I'm colorblind. I don't know the difference. I only know you're a human being and you're my children.” KnowsHumansChildrenBlackDifferencesHuman BeingsWhiteMy ChildrenBlack Women Author:Moms Mabley
“It is so important not to let ourselves off the hook or to become apathetic or cynical by telling ourselves that nothing works or makes a difference. Every day, light your small candle.... The inaction and actions of many human beings over a long time contributed to the crises our children face, and it is the action and struggle of many human beings over time that will solve them-with God's help. So every day, light your small candle.” HumansChildrenLongImportantHelpingLightActionFacesDifferencesHuman BeingsStruggleLong TimeOur ChildrenCrisisEnvironmentalSolveMaking A DifferenceCandleCynicalSustainabilityHookInactionApathetic Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“When I look at birds and animals, their survival is without rules, without conditions, without organization. But mothers take good care of their offspring. That's nature. In human beings also, parents - particularly mothers - and children have a special bond. Mother's milk is a sign of this affection. We are created that way. The child's survival is entirely dependent on someone else's affection. So, basically, each individual's survival or future depends on society. We need these human values.” WayNeedsHumansLooksChildrenCareMotherValuesIndividualParentHuman BeingsAnimalSpecialConditionsDependsSurvivalBirdOrganizationAffectionDependentMilkOffspringHuman ValuesMother And Child Author:Dalai Lama
“My impression is that a sense of rhythm, which has no analog in language, is unique and that its correlation with movement is unique to human beings. Why else would children start to dance when they're two or three? Chimpanzees don't dance.” HumansChildrenTwoThreeLanguageHuman BeingsMovementUniqueImpressionRhythmCorrelationChimpanzeesAnalog Author:Oliver Sacks
“Writing is how I communicate my deepest beliefs, and what I hope are helpful observations about our dual citizenship, as children of God, as regular old mixed-up, worried, flawed, precious human beings.” WritingHumansChildrenBeliefHuman BeingsCommunicateObservationWorriedHelpfulCitizenshipFlawedChild Of GodDual Citizenship Author:Anne Lamott
“What always strikes me in the story of Cain and Abel is how often the word "brother" is used. Cain killed his "brother." God says it was "the blood of your brother." The killing was done to another human being, a child of God like you, breaking that sacred bond of common humanity.” HumansChildrenDoneStoriesUsedHumanityHuman BeingsCommonBloodBrotherLike YouSacredKillingStrikesChild Of GodYour BrotherCainCommon HumanityAbelCain And Abel Author:Allan Boesak
“I feel we have to begin standing our ground in the places we love. I think that we have to demand that concern for the land, concern for the Earth, and this extension of community that we've been speaking of, is not marginal - in the same way that women's rights are not marginal, in the same way that rights for children are not marginal. There is no separation between the health of human beings and the health of the land. It is all part of a compassionate view of the world.” ThinkingWorldWayFeelsHumansChildrenEarthCommunityHuman BeingsViewsRightsLandDemandConcernStandingSeparationCompassionateWomens RightsExtensions Author:Terry Tempest Williams
“Empathy and fellow feeling form the very basis of morality. The capacities for empathy, for feeling responsibility toward others and for reaching out to help them can be stunted or undermined early on, depending on a child's experiences in the home and neighborhood. It becomes too easy to turn our backs on fellow human beings... to have 'compassion fatigue.' Technology, we are learning, is not neutral.” HumansChildrenHelpingFeelingsHomeFormTurnsLanguageEasyHuman BeingsResponsibilityCompassionTechnologySocietyCommunicationMoralityEmpathyCapacityBasesFellowsReachingNeighborhoodReach OutFatigueFellow Feeling Author:Sissela Bok
“I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.... My hemmings and hawings over the telephone cause long-distance callers to switch from their native English to pathetic French. At parties, if I attempt to entertain people with a good story, I have to go back to every other sentence for oral erasures and inserts.... In these circumstances nobody should ask me to submit to an interview if by "interview" a chat between two normal human beings is implied.” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldWritingHumansChildrenLongTwoStoriesAsksSpeakCausesHuman BeingsPartyGeniusCircumstancesNormalAnxietyDistanceSentencesAsk MeInterviewsNativeSubmitTelephonesPatheticDistinguishedGood StoryLong DistanceImpliedSocial AnxietyInsert Author:Vladimir Nabokov