É bem verdade ...

"Babies are born loving perfectly. They give fully, trust completely and enter every moment with an awareness of connection."

Lauren Porter,
Co-Director, Centre for Attachment (NZ)

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"We must learn to accept the fact that during their developmental years children cannot be expected to exhibit adult behavior."
Robert Mendelsohn, M.D.,
author of How to Raise a Healthy Child In Spite of Your Doctor

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"You are troubled at seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Is it nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy as now."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
Émile: Or, Concerning Education, 1883

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"If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of saying or doing anything to a child that you would not do to another adult, whose good opinion and affection you valued."
John Holt,
Freedom and Beyond


"It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wreck and ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty."
Albert Einstein

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"We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today."
Stacia Tauscher

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"Each of us must come to care about everyone else's children. We must recognize that the welfare of our children is intimately linked to the welfare of all other people's children. After all, when one of our children needs life-saving surgery, someone else's child will perform it. If one of our children is harmed by violence, someone else's child will be responsible for the violent act. The good life for our own children can be secured only if a good life is also secured for all other people's children."
Lilian Katz

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"When we begin to face the truth about babies and what they need and are willing to provide it for them, then we will be on the road to becoming human again. We will not have to pretend to ourselves and to our children that we are a caring people. It will be obvious by the results."
James Kimmel, Ph.D.,
Whatever Happened to Mother?

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"I stand up, pull her covers up, turn off her bedside lamp. 'Good night, sweetie.'

"'All right,' she says. It's rare for her to say good night. She doesn't like it, I don't know why. She is turning into herself in these little ways. She is like stepping into the garden every day, when you know something is new, different from the day before. That's how children are, growing up in front of you the way they do. Sometimes it's a barely noticeable thing, like a stem that's slightly taller. Sometimes it's a blossom that's burst forth, obvious as a Vegas showgirl. 'Wow', you think. 'I'd better not miss a day. I'd better be here.'"
Elizabeth Berg,
Range of Motion

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"It's so sad how abusive our world has become. I think the majority of people in this world have forgotten, or perhaps never knew, what happiness is possible when there is love."
Duen Hsi Yen,
Director, Malama Learning Facility


in http://www.naturalchild.org/