The First 40 Years Of Childhood Are Always The Hardest.

Published on June 10, 2016 , under Quotes
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The First 40 Years Of Childhood Are Always The Hardest

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I miss my childhood, where the hardest decision was choosing which Nintendo game to play.

At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.

Not to grow up properly is to retain our ‘caterpillar’ quality from childhood (where it is a virtue) into adulthood (where it becomes a vice). In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and our ancestors. But if we don’t grow out of it in the fullness of time, our caterpillar nature makes us a sitting target for astrologers, mediums, gurus, evangelists and quacks. The genius of the human child, mental caterpillar extraordinary, is for soaking up information and ideas, not for criticizing them. If critical faculties later grow it will be in spite of, not because of, the inclinations of childhood. The blotting paper of the child’s brain is the unpromising seedbed, the base upon which later the sceptical attitude, like a struggling mustard plant, may possibly grow. We need to replace the automatic credulity of childhood with the constructive scepticism of adult science.

One of the universal fears of childhood is the fear of not having value in the eyes of the people whom we admire so much.

It’s never too late to have a happy childhood-Tom Robbins

Sometimes I wish I was a little kid again skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts.

Learning is their journey. Let them navigate. Push them to explore. Watch them discover. Encourage their questions. Allow them to struggle. Support their thinking. Let them fly.

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