“There were some super-lean years, yeah. I'm six feet four. And I entered into this period all of a sudden when I was too big to play a kid and I was too young to play an adult. Like, I couldn't play the lawyer, but I couldn't play the high school kid anymore.” YearsPlayBigsKidsSchoolYoungFourFeetPeriodsSixHigh SchoolAdultsYeahLawyer Author:Jason Segel
“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
“With childhood comes a brief grace period of ignorant bliss -- when you're not aware of the pain around you. That is the most special, truly unique time. It is the core of adult lament.” PainGraceChildhoodSpecialPeriodsUniqueAdultsCoreIgnorantBlissLamentIgnorant Bliss Author:Barry Privett
“I've protected my protracted period of infancy. For many years. And I have no desire to become an adult.” YearsDesirePeriodsAdultsProtectedInfancy Author:David Gordon Green
“My falling in love with spoken word poetry definitely came out of that time period where all the adults around me were failing to supply me with any answers. Everyone was too busy dealing with things that were more important. I was pretty lost and invisible. And all of a sudden, this world opened up where I could get on stage and perform in front of my peers. People would listen to me and see me, and people would say, "That thing you created was important." And that was so validating and necessary at that specific moment.” PeopleWorldImportantMomentsFallLostAnswersFailingStageFrontsThis WorldPeriodsAdultsFalling In LoveBusyInvisiblePeersToo BusyListen To MeSpoken WordTime Periods Author:Sarah Kay
“the myth of childhood happiness flourishes so wildly not because it satisfies the needs of children but because it satisfies the needs of adults. In a culture of alienated people, the belief that everyone has at least one good period in life free of care and drudgery dies hard. And obviously you can't expect it in your old age. So it must be you've already had it.” PeopleNeedsChildrenHardCareAgeDiesCultureBeliefChildhoodPeriodsAdultsMythOld AgeBe YouDrudgery Book:The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution Source: The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution
“From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young breathing time to master the things they will need to know in order to survive as adults.” KnowsNeedsGivingChildrenYoungOrderChildhoodSpecialMastersPerspectivePeriodsAdultsBreathingProtectedImmaturity Author:Alison Gopnik
“During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that is absolutely intolerable.” GivingHouseHoursLibertyPeriodsAdultsLegsHouse Arrest Author:Julian Assange
“Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who must be subjugated to society's goals to a precious being who must be protected from unreasonable social demands. Childhood has come to be seen as a special period of life, rather than as a temporary state of no lasting importance for adulthood.” YearsChildrenStatesPastSocialGoalChangeChildhoodSpecialChangedPeriodsDemandAdultsImportanceIllErasLastingTemporaryConceptionProtectedAdulthoodOver The PastUnreasonable Author:Sandra Scarr
“Fashions change, and with the new psychoanalytical perspective of the postwar period [WWII], child rearing became enshrined as thespecial responsibility of mothersany shortcoming in adult life was now seen as rooted in the failure of mothering during childhood.” ChildrenResponsibilityChildhoodFashionPerspectivePeriodsAdultsRootedWwiiShortcomingsMotheringChild Rearing Author:Sylvia Ann Hewlett
“I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends.” MeanWould BeGuyGirlFoundPeriodsAdultsFemaleImportanceMalesGuy FriendFemales And Males Author:Zooey Deschanel