The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far.
In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. In these years, the child not only increases in size but passes through great transformations. This is the age in which language and movement develop. The child must be safeguarded in order that these activities may develop freely.
It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I started writing the book when my daughter was 5. It took me almost four years.
If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.
In parenting, as in judging, the days are long, but the years are short.
We've got to understand that the ages of zero to three are the most formative years of a person's life, the time they learn the concept of reward and punishment and develop a conscience, and that 50 percent of all learned human response is learned in the first year of life.
A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.