You cannot hold a child accountable to the same standards that you hold an adult accountable to.
The only 'good' learning is that which is in advance of development.
Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation
Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
The early development of the human brain is extremely important for setting the table, if you will, for potential future accomplishment.
Age is not based on chronology, but psychology.
It was when I was the age where you can, as they say, "hear voices" without worrying that something is wrong with you. I "heard voices" all the time as a small child.
Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.
I think all The Shield boys will tell you we hold The Shield very dear to our hearts. That was our vehicle to where we are now, and to get out of developmental and out of that hot Tampa warehouse.
Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we cannot say "tomorrow." Their name is today.
Puppies, like all babies, grow up fast. Before long, Gracie was no longer barking at her reflection, instead offering a blase look that seemed to say, 'I know what that is now. I know it's not another dog.'
I was a late bloomer. I wasn't a child performer.
When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.
Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the full sense of the word.
With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.
The development of the child during the first three years after birth is unequaled in intensity and importance by any period that precedes or follows in the whole life of the child.
Indeed there are powers in the small child that are far greater than is generally realized, because it is in this period that the construction, the building-up, of man takes place, for at birth, psychically speaking, there is nothing at all - zero!
In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life.
I'm still an embryo with a long long way to go.
Chronological age is only an approximation of your functional age.
Children almost always hang onto things tighter than their parents think they will.
L'adolescence est le seul temps o u' l'on ait appris quelque chose. Adolescence is the only time when we can learn something.
I was a late bloomer.
I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me.
Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction.
