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Quote for the Day: Mark Ruffalo
CCLI by jeweledlion via Fotopedia They would never let me be a crossing guard when I was a little kid. It would come up, I’d always raise my hand, I would never get picked. They thought I was too wild,...
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For the Kid in You: The Impish and Heartwarming World of An Eye for Annai
Jon Klassen is known as a writer and illustrator of children’s books and as an animator. He has worked on films, such as Coraline and Kung Fu Panda, and directed the video for I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t...
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Quote for Today: David Suzuki
© MeMeReNe with CCLicense We can’t blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn’t put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often...
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Quote for Today: Richard Louv
© talkingplant with CCLicense Leave part of the yard rough. Don’t manicure everything. Small children in particular love to turn over rocks and find bugs, and give them some space to do that. Take your...
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Quote for Today: Maurice Sendak
Where the Wild Things Are muralimage © Doc Brown with CCLicense . . .from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their...
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Quote for Today: Eula Biss
© derekGavey with CCLicense British researchers recently found that girls between the ages of seven and eleven harbor surprisingly strong feelings of dislike for their Barbie dolls, with no other toy...
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Quote for Today: Annie Besant
© cheekycrows3 with CCLicense To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child. –Annie Besant
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The Shadow of Innocence: Villainous by Paul Constantakis
Children are often characterized as innocent, but watching them play reveals otherwise. Deep down, aren’t we all a bit villainous? A sleeping boy lies peacefully in his room, but all is not as it...
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Quote for Today: Catherynne M. Valente
A Child’s Cry for Peace© D. Sharon Pruitt with CCLicense When little ones say they want to go home, they almost never mean it. They mean they are tired of this particular game and would like to start...
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Quote for Today: Gaston Leroux
© Dave Hosford with CCLicense They played at hearts as other children might play at ball; only, as it was really their two hearts that they flung to and fro, they had to be very, very handy to catch...
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Quote for Today: Richard Brautigan
Abandoned Legacy© Fate-Lee with CCLicense We could see the children’s toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers and abalone shells, but the...
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Quote for Today: Alfred Hitchcock
Gustav Doré, Illustration for Charles Perrault’s Petit Chaperon Rouge, 1867 Fear isn’t so difficult to understand. After all, weren’t we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red...
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Quote for Today: William Golding
© Rrinsindika with CCLicense Now we, if not in the spirit, have been caught up to see our earth, our mother, Gaia Mater, set like a jewel in space. We have no excuse now for supposing her riches...
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Quote for Today: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Public Domain Image via Pixabay And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously. ―Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The...
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Quote for Today: Maya Angelou
© Trocaire with CCLicense I am convinced that most people do not grow up… We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of...
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Quote for Today: Dr. Seuss
Adults are obsolete children. –Dr. Seuss Public Domain Image via Pexels.com
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Quote for Today: Zack Love
Every human relationship begins with a coincidence. Even the most fundamental relationship – that of parent and child – begins entirely with a coincidence. The child is produced by whatever...
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Quote for Today: Barbara Kingsolver
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. What I...
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Quote for Today: Michelle Alexander
The wave of punitiveness that washed over the United States with the rise of the drug war and the get tough movement really flooded our schools. Schools, caught up in this maelstrom, began viewing...
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Quote for Today: Malcolm X
Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so ‘safe,’ and therefore so shrinking and rigid and...
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