Those who first introduced compulsory education into American life knew exactly why children should go to school and learn to read: to save their souls… Consistent with this goal, the first book written and printed for children in America was… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
Children of eight and nine who love their mothers dearly will cross to the other side of the street when they see her coming,… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
Children of the middle years do not do their learning unaffected by attendant feelings of interest, boredom, success, failure, chagrin, joy, humiliation, pleasure, distress… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
Parents must begin to discover their children as individuals of developing tastes and views and so help them be, and see, themselves as thinking, feeling people. It is far too easy for a middle-years child to absorb an over-simplified picture of himself as a sloppy, unreliable, careless, irresponsible, lazy creature and not much more--an attitude toward himself he will carry… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share
The frantic search of five-year-olds for friends can thus be seen to forecast the beginnings of a basic shift in the parent-childrelationship, a shift… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, no school can work well for children if parents and teachers do not act in partnership on behalf of the children's best interests.… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
They [parents] can help the children work out schedules for homework, play, and television that minimize the conflicts involved in what to do first.… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
The child to be concerned about is the one who is actively unhappy, [in school]… In the long run, a child's emotional development has… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
Those who first introduced compulsory education into American life knew exactly why children should go to school and learn to read: to save their… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
In the middle years of childhood, it is more important to keep alive and glowing the interest in finding out and to support this… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
No school can work well for children if parents and teachers do not act in partnership on behalf of the children's best interests — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
The middle years are ones in which children increasingly face conflicts on their own,... One of the truths to be faced by parentsduring this… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
Television programming for children need not be saccharine or insipid in order to give to violence its proper balance in the scheme of things…… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
![“They [parents] can help the children work out schedules for homework, play, and television that minimize the conflicts involved in what to do first. They can offer moral support and encouragement to persist, to try again, to struggle for understanding and mastery. And they can share a child's…” quote by Dorothy H Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ff4/dorothy-h-cohen-33807_children_they-parents-can-help-the-children-work_1614472.jpg)
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