Childhood is a short season.
“Childhood is a short season.”
— Helen Hayes · Parenting
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Childhood is a short season.
“Childhood is a short season.”
— Helen Hayes · Parenting
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“Childhood is a short season.”
“I cry out for order and find it only in art.”
“The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.”
“People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.”
“Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.”
“There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in.”
“One of the many problems with parenting is that kids keep changing. Just when you're used to one stage, they zoom into another.”
“Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up.”
“You can make sure your kids make their beds and hang up their clothes and put their dishes in the dishwasher when you're the one calling the shots. So, parenting alone, for me anyway, I think is almost easier, being single.”
“Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.”
“Most moms and dads, they want to be good moms and dads. But it's an incredibly hard job when you are stressed out, when you are poor, when your life is in chaos. And giving them some of the tools to be better parents, to whittle away at that parenting gap, gives those kids a much better starting point in life.”