It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.
There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.
There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.
When you discover that you are going to have a child, it stirs up memories of your own childhood.
Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical.
One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
My upbringing as a child was very atypical.
We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.
Children don't make judgments about which details are important... a child captures them all.
All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.