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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life. (Princess Diana )
Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established. (Princess Diana )
Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age. (Princess Diana )
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. (Princess Diana )
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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. (Princess Diana )
We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them. (Princess Diana )
When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them. (Princess Diana )
A child is fed with milk and praise. (Princess Diana )
What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings. (Princess Diana )
Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up. (Princess Diana )
The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent. (Princess Diana )
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted. (Princess Diana )
Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. (Princess Diana )
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. (Princess Diana )
Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. (Princess Diana )
Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy. (Princess Diana )
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one. (Princess Diana )
Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children. (Princess Diana )
What is done to children, they will do to society. (Princess Diana )
A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in. (Princess Diana )
A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far. (Princess Diana )
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men. (Princess Diana )
He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy. (Princess Diana )
Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him. (Princess Diana )
Where children are, there is the golden age. (Princess Diana )
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