All children's books are about ideals. Adult fiction sets out to portray and then explain the world as it really is; books for chi...ldren present it as it should be. Child readers come to them hoping for a certain amount of instruction, but chiefly for stories in which the petty restrictions of ordinary life are removed: they want to encounter people who can fly, geese that lay golden eggs, frogs that turn into princes, spaceships piloted by children, anything that measures up to their ideals of adventure and imagination. Adults, on the other hand, are more likely to want to feed the children a set of moral examples. By all means, let them have their fun, but the opportunity of providing models of ideal behaviour is not to be wasted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower,... Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One way to think about play, is as the process of finding new combinations for known things--combinations that may yield new forms... of expression, new inventions, new discoveries, and new solutions....It's exactly what children's play seems to be about and explains why so many people have come to think that children's play is so important a part of childhood--and beyond.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Friends serve central functions for children that parents do not, and they play a critical role in shaping children's social skill...s and their sense of identity. . . . The difference between a child with close friendships and a child who wants to make friends but is unable to can be the difference between a child who is happy and a child who is distressed in one large area of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With a few exceptions, the critics of children's books are remarkably lenient souls.... Most of us assume there is something good ...in every child; the critics go from this to assume there is something good in every book written for a child. It is not a sound theory.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfas...t love for the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, yet by no means clearing the guilty, but visiting the iniquity of the parents upon the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this entire law that I am setting before you today? But take ca...re and watch yourselves closely, so as neither to forget the things that your eyes have seen nor to let them slip from your mind all the days of your life; make them known to your children and your children's children...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »