Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her.
Interpretation
Children require unconditional love and support from at least one adult figure in their lives.
This quote emphasizes the vital role that passionate and committed adults play in the development and well-being of children. Having at least one adult who is 'irrationally crazy' about a child provides the emotional support, encouragement, and security that fosters a child's growth, self-esteem, and resilience throughout their formative years.
In practice
In a parenting workshop, to highlight the importance of supportive relationships for children.
Turning on the television set can turn off the process that transforms children into people... It is primarily through observing, playing, and working with others older and younger than himself that a child discovers both what he can do and who he can become β that he develops both his ability and his identity.
If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
Love the family! Defend and promote it as the basic cell of human_x000D_ _x000D_ society; nurture it as the prime sanctuary of life. Give great care to the_x000D_ _x000D_ preparation of engaged couples and be close to young married couples, so_x000D_ _x000D_ that they will be for their children and the whole community an eloquent_x000D_ _x000D_ testimony of God's love.
Our entire family is replete with sentiments of patriotism. Uncle Swarna Singh left for his heavenly abode in jail in 1910, two or three years after my birth. Uncle Ajit Singh is leading the life of an exile in foreign countries.
As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.
I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.
Dear parents, teach your children to pray. Pray with them.
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