Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that children are not blank slates to be filled with adult preferences; they have their own identities.
Khaled Hosseini's quote reflects the idea that children are unique individuals with their own thoughts, feelings, and preferences. Instead of imposing our desires on them, we should nurture their individuality and allow them to explore their own paths, understanding that personal growth comes from within rather than through external influence.
In practice
During a parent-teacher meeting to discuss child development.
You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.
There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir
I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.
And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.
The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
I asked my mum, who's a very clever psychotherapist, and she says that kids love stories about death; they need it, they need to have stories that deal with death and explain it, as a place to put their fears.
Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.
The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.
Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to submit to certain absurd duties, and a natural result of the distorted, unbalanced education given to them. This laziness, which leads to an insuperable reluctance to learn, is, contrary to appearances, sometimes proof of intellectual superiority and a condemnation of the teacher.
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