Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memories when the grown child confronts them.
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It's so important to engage your kids to create rituals and moments that they will always remember.
Sometimes our childhood experiences are emotionally intense, which can create strong mental models. These experiences and our assumptions about them are then reinforced in our memory and can continue to drive our behavior as adults.
Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!
Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.
You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you read when you were little - the innocence that you are able to maintain because you have to find that again in order to connect with your child keeps you in a special state of mind.
A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood.
Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.
Most childhoods are full of anxiety, but that tends to get smoothed over, so you have a sense of nostalgia.
One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
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