#child

The children almost broken by the world become the adults most likely to change it. ↗

— Frank Warren

#change

The distance to the corner shops of childhood becomes unfathomable, immeasurable; the candy bars have changed. And change has changed. ↗

— Ilse Aichinger

#childhood #past #age

What sets one Southern town apart from another, or from a Northern town or hamlet, or city high-rise? The answer must be the experience shared between the unknowing majority (it) and the knowing minority (you). All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#i-know-why-the-caged-bird-sings #innocence #learning #maya-angelou #change

She did not especially appreciate children either, but could be kind to them when they were silent. ↗

— Gordon Dahlquist

#humor #change

Blame or credit, does not belong to the child alone. Parents, those who raised the child, must be given equal credit, or blame. That does not change, when the child is one, twenty or ninety years old. ↗

— Omar Kiam

#parenting #change

Knowledge empowers people with our most powerful tool: the ability to think and decide. There is no power for change greater than a child discovering what he or she cares about. (Speech about Global Warming read on the National Mall for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, 2010) ↗

— Seymour Simon

#children #climate-change #earth-day #global-warming #seymour-simon

Overall, your want to present yourself to your child as an ally, empathetic to his feelings, and responsive to his needs - even when your needs are conflicting. If your goal is to enlist your child's cooperation in changing his behavior, find ways to be as aligned with his emotionally as possible. By earning your child's trust, you are much more likely to reach him with your point of view than if you approach him in opposition. ↗

— Hilary Flower

#change

The room was full of magical objects, animals, photographs, paintings, strange looking plants and many flying books. I only found this room a few days ago and it seems that it keeps changing every time I come. ↗

— Magda M. Olchawska

#children-books #fairies #illustrated-books #kids #kids-books

The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#doppelherz #golden-age-of-grotesque #marilyn-manson #youth #age

May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#flow #honesty #integrity #moral-courage #river