It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In raising children, we need to continuously keep in mind how we can best create the most favorable environment for their imitative behavior. Everything done in the past regarding imitation must become more and more conscious and more and more consciously connected with the future.
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.
Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.
When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.
'O sleep, O gentle sleep,' I thought gratefully, 'Nature's soft nurse!'
There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.
A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
A child's first teacher is its mother.