#child

Puff, the Magic Dragon, lived by the sea, and frolicked in the Autumn Mist in a land called Honah Lee, little Jacky Paper loved that rascal Puff, and gave him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff. ↗

— Peter Yarrow

#dragon #songs #love

I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#noise #nature

Children are natural practitioners of the Queer and the Questing, for childhood is nothing but a quest through a queer country. Of course, they often have a good deal of trouble with the Quiet. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#quiet #nature

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world? ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#child-abuse #children #feminism #hell #religion

The part of the brain most affected by early stress is the prefrontal cortex, which is critical in self-regulatory activities of all kinds, both emotional and cognitive. As a result, children who grow up in stressful environments generally find it harder to concentrate, harder to sit still, harder to rebound from disappointments, and harder to follow directions. And that has a direct effect on their performance in school. ↗

— Paul Tough

#children #science #science

The journey is the reward. ↗

— Erik Daniel Shein

#science-fiction #science

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#children-s-books #reading #story

Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning. ↗

— J.M. Barrie

#right

Dreams are glimpses into life’s truths. ↗

— Larry Itejere

#children-s-books #fantasy-fiction #teen-fantasy #dreams

Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and skepticism of adulthood. Embrace the moment before it escapes from our grasp. For the only promise of childhood, of any childhood, is that it will someday end. And in the end, we must ask ourselves what we have given our children to take its place. And is it enough? ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

#childhood #children #parenting #play #miracles