Quotes of: Autistic-children Keyword

Sunny was a treat to read. It is most appealing as the story is very well done and the artwork is beautiful. I applaud the author for writing a book to meet the needs of very young children as well as children of elementary school age. I experienced ...

Sunny

Someday you'll understand. You'll have your own children, and they'll mean more to you than the world. A wife has to defend her children, even against her own husband. Not that I expect you to be easily cowed. But sometimes, despite all you say and d...

Quintessence

It matters to ourselves, of course, but it matters terribly to other people. Moral failure or spiritual failure or whatever you call it, makes such a vicious circle... It seems as if when we love people and they fall short, we retaliate by falling sh...

They Were Sisters

I remember thinking about how mothers were prepared to run into burning buildings to save their children's lives. I thought I should be able to go through a bit more suffering, a bit more inconvenience to give my children life. It made me feel noble....

What Alice Forgot

Our musicians in residence carry this belief into the classroom. They don't think of children's self-esteem as so fragile that it will be shattered by the suggestion that the child guessed wrong or jumped to an invalid conclusion. They make correctio...

A Well-Tempered Mind: Using Music to Help Children Listen and Learn

In the agricultural age, women conceived younger and had many more children because children were economic assets as workers on the farm. In the postindustrial age, children are emotional assets but economic liabilities, costing both a middle-class h...

In Her Own Sweet Time: Unexpected Adventures in Finding Love, Commitment, and Motherhood

Schooling that children are forced to endure—in which the subject matter is imposed by others and the “learning” is motivated by extrinsic rewards and punishments rather than by the children’s true interests—turns learning from a joyful act...

Peter Gray

so that it isn't upsetting to anybody. It's something we've always known about fairy tales – they talk about incest, the Oedipus complex, about psychotic mothers, like those of Snow White and Hansel and Gretel, who throw their children out. They te...

Maurice Sendak

The Dude: These are, uh... Brandt: Oh, those are Mr Lebowski's children, so to speak. The Dude: Different mothers, huh? Brandt: No. The Dude: Racially he's pretty cool? Brandt: [laughs] They're not literally his children. They're the Little Lebowski ...

The Big Lebowski

I also know that I won't go forth and have children just in case I might regret missing it later in life; I don't think this is a strong enough motivation to bring more babies onto the earth. Though I suppose people do reproduce sometimes for that re...

Eat, Pray, Love

All the best and worse things in us are bound up in the legacy of our family. As children we ardently trust in the stability or, in some cases, the instability we were born into. No matter which...we embraced what was decent while simultaneously supp...

A Walk with Prudence

It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters. We become enamored with men’s theories such as the idea of presch...

Ezra Taft Benson

To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.

Chinese

I go to all the appointments. All the meetings. I sit with the team of inclusion teachers, occupational therapists, doctors, social workers, remedial teachers, and the cab driver that gets him from appointment to appointment, and I push for everythin...

Ducks on the Moon: A Parent Meets Autism

We all die alone. We shall endure death as once we endured birth. You can’t share either experience.

The Children of Men

Welcome to Hartford. The poorest city in the wealthiest state in the richest country on earth.

The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial

Reading centers on finding yourself in a book. -- Sherman Alexie

Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children's Book

Maturity is the ability to relate appropriately to other realities than one’s own.

Education for Life: Preparing Children to Meet Today's Challenges

We ignore the emotional needs of young children at our peril.

Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential--and Endangered

That the world should be filled with such detail, such tiny points of human frailty, threatened to crush her and she had to look away.

The Children Act

I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning. Who ever thought I'd be a children's author - let alone a best-selling children's author?

Brian Jacques