"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."
C. S. Lewis
"The young child is almost at the mercy of adults - it is so important to him to please."
James L. Hymes, Jr.
"You can do anything with children if you only play with them."
Otto von Bismark
"All of the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."
Havelock Ellis
"Growth is not steady, forward, upward progression. It is instead a switchback trail; three steps forward, two back, one around the bushes, and a few simply standing, before another forward leap."
Dorothy Corkville Briggs
"When you've seen a nude toddler doing a backward somersault, you know why clothing exists."
Stephen Fry
"Every day we move a little closer to the sidelines of our children's lives, which is where we belong if we do our job right."
Anna Quindlen
"You are troubled at seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing? What! Is it nothing to skip, to play, to run about all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy as now."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Families ought to be noisy."
Benjamin Franklin
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