Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
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Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.
Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.
The function of a guideline isn't to tell you what kids have actually experienced; it's to provide goals.
Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.
Children are not in a position to assess risk and safety; it must be done for them, and it must be done carefully.
With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still young and can have the bright future they deserve.
Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.
Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.
Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the child a deep, almost somatic conviction that there is meaning in what they are doing.
I'm constantly amazed by the ability a child has to show sympathy, to read emotions, to get to the heart of any situation. It's unfiltered and completely inspiring.