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We expect him to take up a lot of space in his gangly experiments with life, and we teach him, through task,…
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Our youth want less adult contact if that co ntacttreats them like boys. They want more adult contact that treats them like…
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Boys need to learn the value of spiritual solitude. For the soul to grow, it needs those moments of no-stimulation, of wakeful…
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The culture in which you parent, mentor, or educate boys exhorts them to be individualistic and group-oriented at once, but does not…
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As our lives speed up more and more, so do our children's. We forget and thus they forget that there is nothing…
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Jed Diamond is, quite simply, one of the wisest men writing today on the topic of male emotional and physical health.
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Boys get unfairly labeled as morally defective, hyperactive, undisciplined, or 'problem children,' when quite often the problem is not with the boys…
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If Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer were alive today, we’d say they had ADD or a conduct disorder. They [boys] are who…
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One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of…
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Teacher cannot solve or heal all student stress. The teacher can be vigilant in trying to guide the child toward solutions;but the…
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Neuroligacally, human beings haven't caught up with today's overstimulating environment. Getting kids out in nature can make a difference.
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The quickest way to create a boy or man who lacks compassion is to judge and shame his feelings.
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Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as…
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We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so…
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Boys need to learn the value of spiritual solitude. For the soul to grow, it needs those moments of no-stimulation, of wakeful…
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We adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children.
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We adults protect ourselves with laws, police, workplace regulations and social norms and there is no conceivable reason why children should be…
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I think that children have a power to imagine that is almost magical when compared to the adult imagination, and this is…
— Joseph Weizenbaum
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Kids are naturally inventive and curious and creative, but most adults have had that beaten out of them. Writing is a form…
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Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are…
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Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved…
— Nancy Gibbs
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One of the most important things we adults can do for young children is to model the kind of person we would…
— Unknown Author
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