“ Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.” To me a chipmunk was a far more real personality than Great-Uncle Aaron, and the mousehole gnawed in the lower left corner of the door to down cellar a more delightful habitation for the mind to contemplate than the parsonage.” “ Children feel what their elders forget, our touching kinship with animals. little seedlings never flourish in the soil they have been given, be it ever so excellent, if they are continually pulled up to see if the roots are grateful yet.” “ Even in the same family, one child will always instinctively know when to ask for things, and another won't.” “ There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.” “ The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.” “ The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.” Nature has separated them by an almost impassable barrier of time the mind and the heart are in quite a different state at fifteen and forty.” “ Parents and children cannot be to each other, as husbands with wives and wives with husbands. “ Two important things to teach a child: to do and to do without.” “ Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.” “ After you have children, the economic law reverses to Demand and Supply.” “ Where there's a will there's a way, and where there's a child there's a will.” “ The illusions of childhood are necessary experiences: a child should not be denied a balloon just because an adult knows that sooner or later it will burst.” “ Children always take the line of most persistence.” “ To give children everything is often worse than giving them nothing.” “ A child does not thrive on what he is prevented from doing, but on what he actually does.” “ Obstinacy in children is like a kite it is kept up just as long as we pull against it.” Compared with an adult, the child is all left hand.” “ Children should not be condemned for accidents. “ A child can never be better than what his parents think of him.” “ Children whose problems aren't recognized become problem children.” “ A child who constantly hears 'Don't,' 'Be careful,' 'Stop' will eventually be overtaken by schoolmates, business associates, and rival suitors.” Few grownups can get through a whole day without making a mistake.” “ It is a mystery why adults expect perfection from children. however strong the seduction of treating children as adults, it is always a seduction to resist. children are unreliable, foreigners to discretion.”
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