Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life. Abbie M. Dale Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. Richard Bach Our children seem to have wonderful taste, or none - depending, of course, on whether or not they agree with us. Author Unknown The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all. Benjamin Spock US activist, pacifist, physician, & child care reformer (1903 - ) You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table. Gypsy Smith Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. Bernard Berenson US (Lithuanian-born) art critic (1865 - 1959) The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it Jean-Jacques Rousseau Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him Clark Mousakas I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures. Basil W. Maturin |