I did a study of soldiers returning from Iraq, and their levels of PTSD were much higher if they had had to shoot a woman or child, even if they knew the person was a suicide bomber.
A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis.
Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.
My very first acting job was with Alan Parker on Angela's Ashes but as a child I had written to so many other productions just applying for any role. I always wanted to be an actress and I did loads of acting summer schools.
A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.
As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes.
I DECLARE I am special and extraordinary. I am not average! I have been custom-made. I am one of a kind. Of all the things God created, what He is the most proud of is me. I am His masterpiece, his most prized possession. I will keep my head held high, knowing I am a child of the most high God, made in his very image. This is my declaration.
This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even ourselves, why make such claims?
I think camping is one of those things where if you're forced into it as a child, you'll probably hate it as an adult.
My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early.
In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.
I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in.
When you have a child you're no longer the star of the movie.
Of the three sorts of knowledge proper to a child, the knowledge of God, of man, and of the universe,--the knowledge of God ranks first in importance, is indispensable, and most happy-making.
Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression.
Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.
When I was a really young child, I felt like I could see fairies. I was convinced there were fairies in my grandmother's garden.
The question isn't so much, Are you parenting the right way? as it is: Are you the adult you want your child to grow up to be?
I get so sick and tired of hearing people gripe about what their parents did to them. You know what your parents did to you? The best thing they could do. The best thing they knew how, the only thing in many cases that they knew how. Nobody has set out maliciously to hurt their child, unless they were psychotic.