#child

Focusing on the way I look makes me uncomfortable. I try to focus on the way I feel - I know what makes me feel better about myself. Reading my child a story makes me feel great, doing my hair nicely doesn't. ↗

— Elle Macpherson

#better #child #doing #feel #focus

I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them. ↗

— Elle Macpherson

#children #choices #guide #i #just

If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#child #combine #come #freely #go

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#both #cannot #child #everything #him

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#aware #before #children #conscious #easily

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart. ↗

— Horace Mann

#begin #brought #chastisement #child #conduct

Whether it's making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care, or making sure that our children receive the best educational opportunities we can give them, we must remain committed to these needs because our children are our future. ↗

— Blanche Lincoln

#because #best #care #child #child care

Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#gift #given #life #life is a #like

Working with special needs children is hard. ↗

— Laura Linney

#hard #needs #special #special needs #working

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#parents #problem #put #their #up