"A preschool child does not emerge from your toddler on a given date or birthday. He becomes a child when he ceases to be a wayward, confusing, unpredictable and often balky person-in-the- making, and becomes a comparatively cooperative, eager-and-easy-to-please real human being--at least 60 per cent of the time."

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Source : Penelope Leach (1989). “Your baby & child: from birth to age five”, Alfred A. Knopf

Penelope Leach

#Children Quotes #Real Quotes #Confusing Quotes

“I come from a huge theater background. The whole action and stunt world just came as the roles were available.”
“A man must walk only his own path...Never another's or his feet will grow tired and sore. And he will feel lost even when he arrives.”
“Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.”
“Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.”
“The United States must keep what it has - diversity and tolerance - which make us what we are.”
“I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.”
“Overseas, language barriers keep me from doing a lot of talking and some of the jokes that I think are funny and they're like crickets. I have to sharpen up on that.”

Source : Source: youknowigotsoul.com
“Things about yourself are never too terrible to say. It's only the things about the ones you love.”

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