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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours read more
It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.
Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new read more
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys.
things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys.
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight read more
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.
Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
