Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. Our job is not to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. Our job is to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless. Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful. If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Thomas Paine Click to tweet. The soul is healed by being with children. Fyodor Dostoyevsky Click to tweet. While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about. Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. Your children make it impossible to regret your past. Sometimes the only ones. Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent. There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone. Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves , how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction. There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep. Your children need your presence more than your presents. If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Indeed — judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgments, learning space and listening carefully are my goals. I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. Truman, 33rd President of the United States. The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day. If you can give your son or daughter only one gift… Let it be enthusiasm. Bruce Barton Click to tweet.
Where parents do too much for their children… the children will not do much for themselves. Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you. Goodness to children… These are the only investments that never fail. Polly Berends Click to tweet. To value his own good opinion, a child has to feel that he is a worthwhile person. He has to have confidence in himself as an individual. Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks , but what we do for them is never wasted.
Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better? Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children, play is serious learning.
Supporting children to play requires us to remember what life is all about. Play is training for the unexpected. Marc Bekoff Click to tweet. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood. In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. Children understand and remember concepts best when they learn from direct personal experiences. Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity. A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep continuing needs, is good for him.
Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price. Education in the true sense is helping the individual to be mature and free, to flower greatly in love and goodness.
That is what we should be interested in, and not in shaping the child according to some idealistic pattern. Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn. You are an Awakener. I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to know as to feel.
If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom , then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil. Once the emotions have been aroused — a sense of the beautiful, the excitement of the new and the unknown, a feeling of sympathy, pity, admiration or love — then we wish for knowledge about the subject of our emotional response.
Once found, it has lasting meaning. It is more important to pave the way for the child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts he is not ready to assimilate. Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything. A young child is, indeed, a true scientist, just one big question mark. I never cease to marvel at the recurring miracle of growth, to be fascinated by the mystery and wonder of this brave enthusiasm. Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk with self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.
Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. Roger Lewin Click to tweet. Only children believe they are capable of everything. Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children. How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid?
It must be education that does it.
A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. A child thinks that life is really beautiful and that it will become even more beautiful. It is the duty of society to fulfil that expectation. Observe your children closely: We should all be inspired by children: Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of Heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness. Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder. There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. Walt Streightiff Click to tweet.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. A child who sings is a happy child. If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. Every child is a different kind of flower, and all together, make this world a beautiful garden.
Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion. There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious. If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attainted the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.
Children pick up words, as pigeons peas, and utter them again as God shall please. If you ask children in India, they point at themselves. I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. Charles Dickens Click to tweet. Play is the work of the child. The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.
The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people. Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.
When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education. One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them. You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
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Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you. Each of us as citizens, has a role to play in creating a better world for our children. We owe our children — the most vulnerable citizens in any society — a life free from violence and fear.
Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation. They will be the leaders of our country, the creators of our national wealth, those who care for and protect our people. Educating all of our children must be one of our most urgent priorities. We all know that education, more than anything else, improves our chances of building better lives. Education is the great engine of personal development. Maybe there is something important for you to learn from your current situation. Maybe you need to release the fear of what others think.
But it is so freeing to take my focus off of that fear and make room in my mind to focus on other things. Like…actually getting work done instead of worrying. Life is so beautiful. Even everyday life is beautiful. I learned that lesson anew recently when I put my phone down at lunch and listened to the music of everyday life around me.
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My marriage is beautiful. My friendships are beautiful. My work is beautiful. My dreams are beautiful. Are we really going to let fear steal some of that beauty from us? But maybe leave out the crying and throwing fits part, ok? This article was published in the Medium Be Yourself Publication. To join over 40, others who enjoy authentic stories of people improving their life, follow us. Aaron Charles is a writer and marketing account executive from Indiana. You can connect with him on Twitter , Medium or Instagram. Aaron and his wife Sarah run a Medium publication called Cooking With Sarah that documents their weekly cooking adventures.
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