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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. (Princess Diana )
Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children. (Princess Diana )
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them. (Princess Diana )
Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent. (Princess Diana )
It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given. (Princess Diana )
Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children. (Princess Diana )
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. (Princess Diana )
Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built. (Princess Diana )
You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child. (Princess Diana )
So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world. (Princess Diana )
The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet. (Princess Diana )
We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open. (Princess Diana )
A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person. (Princess Diana )
Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it. (Princess Diana )
There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep. (Princess Diana )
The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own. (Princess Diana )
Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them? (Princess Diana )
Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves. (Princess Diana )
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief. (Princess Diana )
Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them. (Princess Diana )
Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life. (Princess Diana )
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