A preschool child does not emerge from your toddler on a given date or birthday. He becomes a child when he ceases to be a wayward, confusing, unpredictable and often balky person-in-the- making, and becomes a comparatively cooperative, eager-and-easy-to-please real… — Penelope Leach Copy Share Image
You know that your toddler needed love and approval but he often seemed not to care whether he got it or not and never seemed to know how to earn it. Your pre-school child is positively asking you to tell… — Penelope Leach Copy Share Image
Whatever you do to your child's body, you are doing to your child's mind too. — Penelope Leach Copy Share Image
You know that your toddler needed love and approval but he often seemed not to care whether he got it or not and never… — Penelope Leach Copy Share Image
Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now or in… — Penelope Leach Copy Share Image
For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does 'just for fun' and things… — Penelope Leach Copy Share Image
A baby who cannot relax can be helped to do so by a variety of constant rhythmical stimuli. it will work if the trouble… — Penelope Leach Copy Share Image
Your preschool child will chatter endlessly to you. If you half-listen and half-reply the whole conversation will seem, and become, tediously meaningless for both… — Penelope Leach Copy Share Image
Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives. — Penelope Leach Copy Share Image
Grown-up people do very little and say a great deal.... Toddlers say very little and do a great deal.... With a toddler you cannot… — Penelope Leach Copy Share Image
A preschool child does not emerge from your toddler on a given date or birthday. He becomes a child when he ceases to be… — Penelope Leach Copy Share Image
Your toddler will be "good" if he feels like doing what you happen to want him to do and does not happen to feel… — Penelope Leach Copy Share Image
Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being "fearless" means being without fear. — Penelope Leach Copy Share Image
There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby's. Your… — Penelope Leach Copy Share Image
