Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
Interpretation
Children benefit from having relationships with both peers and adults for guidance and support.
This quote emphasizes the importance of children's social development by highlighting that they need connections not only with their family and peers but also with mature individuals. Such grown-up friendships can provide wisdom, support, and a different perspective, enriching the child’s experience of the world around them.
In practice
A teacher might use this quote to encourage parental involvement in a child's education.
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Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?
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This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.
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I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions
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