When he was a crawler he left your feet to journey to the sofa and bring you a ball. When he was a toddler he left your side to jo...urney across the grass and bring you a leaf. When he was a pre-school child he left your yard to journey next door and bring you back a neighbor's doll. Now he will journey into school and bring you back a piece of his new world....His journeys are all outwards now, into that waiting world. But he feels the invisible and infinitely elastic threads that still guide him back to you. He returns to the base that is you, seeking rest and re-charging for each new leap into life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no c...ondescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To deny the need for comprehensive child care policies is to deny a reality--that there's been a revolution in American life. Gran...dma doesn't live next door anymore, Mom doesn't work just because she'd like a few bucks for the sugar bowl.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I always have felt strange when we came home To the dark house after so long an absence,... And the key rattled loudly into place Seemed to warn someone to be getting out At one door as we entered at another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreig...n intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key ... and bolt the door at once.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting o...utside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bad child care is the nightmare from which no mother can escape. The professional who can run a business or save a life . . . the ...mother who can organize a community fund-raiser while entertaining two toddlers and nursing a baby--no matter how thoroughly they've investigated a nanny, no matter how many years they've known their sitter, all walk out the door haunted by the specter that the sitter or staff member to whom they've entrusted their most precious responsibility is a Hyde masquerading as a Jekyll, or otherwise not the women they thought her to be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such clo...se relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity ... of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some sepulcher, remote, alone, Against whose portal she hath thrown,... In childhood, many an idle stone-- Some tomb from out whose sounding door She ne'er shall force an echo more, Thrilling to think, poor child of sin! It was the dead who groaned within.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »