Able Quote by Polly Berrien Berends

“for the most part, my peers, like me, have embarked on the eternal compromise that is dealing with a toddler. We are no longer…

— Andrea J. Buchanan

“Upon watching a young child do, explore, or create something, you are witnessing an unconditioned essential spirit willing itself into direct action towards a…

— Garry Fitchett

“Books and loud noises, flowers and electric shocks — already in the infant mind these couples were compromisingly linked; and after two hundred repetitions…

— Aldous Huxley

“Also, toddler judgment is horrible. They don’t have any. Put a twelve-month-old on a bed, and they will immediately try and crawl off headfirst…

— Jim Gaffigan

The child often sees only what he already knows. He projects the whole of his verbal thought into things. He sees mountains as built…

— Jean Piaget

The child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years. Just as men have trodden the earth, and later…

— Maria Montessori

“Toddlers are like tiny Banksys who want their work to be seen on the biggest canvas possible, and in your home that canvas is…

— Mike Spohr

The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Nature introduces children to the idea—to the knowing—that they are not alone in this world, and that realities and dimensions exist alongside their own.

— Richard Louv

Structure is something that calms our nature; we know this of toddlers.

— Krista Tippett

“There is something the child sees that he does not see; something the child hears that he does not hear; and this something is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Nature is like a careless child playing with our lives. When it tires of its broken toys, it abandons them and replaces them with…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón