Your toddler will be “good” if he feels like doing what you happen to want him to do and does not happen to feel like doing anything you would dislike. With a little cleverness you can organize life as a whole, and issues in particular, so that you both want the same thing most of the time.
~Penelope Leach
As he walks away on his own two feet—the toddler’s body-mind has reached its moment of perfection. The world is his and he the mighty conqueror of all he beholds.... As long as mother sticks around in the wings, the mighty acrobat confidently performs his trick of twirling in circles, walking on tiptoe, jumping, climbing, staring, naming. He is joyous, filled with his grandeur and wondrous omnipotence.
~Louise J. Kaplan
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
~W. Somerset Maugham
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
~Harry S. Truman
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
~Plato
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2 comments:
"I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."
regarding toddlers, i've never heard anything more accurate and applicable in my whole life!
Right on.
And, by the way, isn't that EXACTLY what all the current candidates running for the presidency are constantly doing, with regards to the voting public?
I guess we never outgrow some things.
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