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
Whatever you do to your child's body, you are doing to your child's mind too. — Penelope Leach Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives. — Penelope Leach Copy Share
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
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
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
Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being "fearless" means being without fear. — Penelope Leach Copy Share
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
Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you… — Penelope Leach Copy Share
Children do not need superhuman, perfect parents. They have always managed with good enough parents: the parents they happened to have. — Penelope Leach Copy Share
Two generations ago only a few unfortunate children ever saw anyone hit over the head with a brick, shot, rammed by a car, blown… — Penelope Leach Copy Share
