Your preschool child will chatter endlessly to you. If you half-listen and half-reply the whole conversation will seem, and become, tediously meaning…

- Penelope Leach

Your toddler will be "good" if he feels like doing what you happen to want him to do and does not happen to feel like doing anything you would dislik…

- Penelope Leach

Children do not need superhuman, perfect parents. They have always managed with good enough parents: the parents they happened to have.

- Penelope Leach

Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now or in the future.

- Penelope Leach

For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does 'just for fun' and things that are 'educatio…

- Penelope Leach

Whatever you do to your child's body, you are doing to your child's mind too.

- Penelope Leach

Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being "fearless" means being without fear.

- Penelope Leach

Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives.

- Penelope Leach

Grown-up people do very little and say a great deal.... Toddlers say very little and do a great deal.... With a toddler you cannot explain, you have …

- Penelope Leach