David Elkind Quotes
- Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.
- We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.
- Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents to teach them to read and do math. They are…
- Decades of research has shown that play is crucial to physical, intellectual, and social-emotiona l development at all ages. This is especially true of the…
- Play is not only our creative drive; it's a fundamental mode of learning.
- We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood.
- If learning to read was as easyas learning to talk, as some writers claim, many more children would learn to read on their own. The…