The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't.
Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
When a child does bad things, the parents are always going to love their child even if they do something bad.
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