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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.
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as read more
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll read more
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.
You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. read more
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15].
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
My mother loved children--she would have given anything if I had been one.
My mother loved children--she would have given anything if I had been one.
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.
