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DEAR MISS MANNERS: I a tired of being treated like a child. My father says it's because I am a child--I am twelve-and-a-half years old--but it still isn't fair. If I go into a store to buy something, nobody pays any attention to me, or if they do, it's to say, "Leave that alone," "Don't touch that," although I haven't done anything. My money is as good as anybody's, but because I am younger, they feel they can be mean to me. It happens to me at home, too. My mother's friend who comes over after dinner sometimes, who doesn't have any children of her own and doesn't know what's what, likes to say to me, "Shouldn't you be in bed by now,dear?" when she doesn't even know what my bedtime is supposed to be. Is there any way I can make these people stop? GENTLE READER: Growing up is the best revenge.


Judith Martin


#miss-manners #money

Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.


Audrey Niffenegger


#mothers #travel

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


J.M. Barrie


#right

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

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.


F. Scott Fitzgerald


#growth #growth

The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood [p. 53]


Richard Paul Evans


#christmasa #memories #smells #christmas

On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.


J.M. Barrie


#magic #childhood

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?


Louis de Bernières


#insanity #childhood

All of us are products of our childhood.


Michael Jackson


#childhood

In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.


N.K. Jemisin


#children #mother #motherhood #love






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