when a child gives you a gift, even if it is just a rock they just picked up, show gratitude. it might be the only thing they have to give, and they have chosen to give it to you.

Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.

Source: Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner (2003); Chapter: 3.

A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there’s a secure family atmosphere.

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If you can light the spark of curiosity in a child, they will learn without any further assistance, very often. Children are natural learners.

What matters most in a child’s development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the first few years. What matters, instead, is whether we are able to help her develop a very different set of qualities, a list that includes persistence, self-control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit and self-confidence.

Source: Paul Tough, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character (2012)

Always smile back at little children. To ignore them is to destroy their belief that the world is good.

A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.