Children

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Ah! Happy Years! Once more, who would not be a boy! Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action...gives the child some message about self-worth. Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. Whoever you are...the world offers itself to your imagination...[and] calls to you...announcing your place in the family of things. [The] family is an everlasting anchorage, a quiet harbour where our ship[s] can be safely left in the mooring of pride and loyalty. The young do not know enough to be prudent and, therefore, they attempt the impossible — and achieve it — generation after generation. I don‘t care what color the parents are. I don’t care of it’s a giraffe and a fish living together. If they’re raising children who believe they’re honored and loved, that’s all that’s important. We are apt to forget that children watch examples better then they listen to preaching. Mind what you say, but mind more closely what you do, for although children close their ears to you, their eyes remain wide open. Grandchildren are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship. If you want your [grand]children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little! Children learn as they play. Most importantly, in play children learn HOW to learn. The human is indissolubly linked with imitation; a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings. If you want your [grand]children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. Play will raise the child in ways you can never imagine.