There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby's. Your body is the child's instrument of birth.
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 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
Children do not need superhuman, perfect parents. They have always managed with good enough parents: the parents they happened to have. - Penelope Leach
Children do not need superhuman, perfect parents. They have always managed with good enough parents: the parents they happened to have.
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
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…
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
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…
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
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.
Whatever you do to your child's body, you are doing to your child's mind too. - Penelope Leach
Whatever you do to your child's body, you are doing to your child's mind too.
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
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 …
Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being "fearless" means being without fear. - Penelope Leach
Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being "fearless" means being without fear.
Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives. - Penelope Leach
Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives.
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