QUOTES:

About children:

If a child is given love, he becomes loving … if he’s helped when he needs help, he becomes helpful.  And if he has been truly valued at home … he grows up secure enough to look beyond himself to the welfare of others. 

-          Dr. Joyce Brothers,   Good Housekeeping,   Aug. 2010

About childhood:

                If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. 

-          Tom Stoppard

About families:

                The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life’s essential unfairness.

-          Nancy Mitford

About early childhood:

What children expect from grownups is not to be ‘understood’, but only to be loved, even though this love may be expressed clumsily or in sternness.  Intimacy does not exist between generations – only trust.

Carl Zucker