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. Pare….

Children of eight and nine who love their mothers dearly will cross to the other side of the street when they see her coming, if they happen to be wi….

Those who first introduced compulsory education into American life knew exactly why children should go to school and learn to read: to save their sou….

Television programming for children need not be saccharine or insipid in order to give to violence its proper balance in the scheme of things.... But….

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 a far greate….

No school can work well for children if parents and teachers do not act in partnership on behalf of the children's best interests.

Parents must begin to discover their children as individuals of developing tastes and views and so help them be, and see, themselves as thinking, fee….

Children of the middle years do not do their learning unaffected by attendant feelings of interest, boredom, success, failure, chagrin, joy, humiliat….

They [parents] can help the children work out schedules for homework, play, and television that minimize the conflicts involved inwhat to do first. T….

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 shif….

The middle years are ones in which children increasingly face conflicts on their own,... One of the truths to be faced by parentsduring this period i….

Parents can offer their help by suggesting and locating resources likely to be unfamiliar to children, such as people, books, andmaterials that can b….

Helping children at a level of genuine intellectual inquiry takes imagination on the part of the adult. Even more, it takes the courage to become a r….

In the middle years of childhood, it is more important to keep alive and glowing the interest in finding out and to support this interest with skills….