“A hundred years from now ...

....it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.”

[Forest E. Witcraft]

Misquote

'Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.'

~Author Unknown

Worry

' We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. '

~Stacia Tauscher

1762

' You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again. '

~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762

Lesson

'While we try to teach our children all about life,Our children teach us what life is all about.'

~Angela Schwindt

Mmmmm

'You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.'

~Franklin P. Jones

sleep

'There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.'

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Failure

'If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.'

~Pearl S. Buck

Dancing

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

~William Stafford

Mmmmm

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. ~Bill Vaughan

Mmmm

'A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. '

~Author Unknown

Mmmmm

A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often.

~Author Unknown