Being a child

Two quotes for  today because i was out of the nets for 3 days.

I belive that one should be a child forever,  This is not to say to behave as a child, but to retain the wonder of a child.... and that this should be forever.  

I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. 

Bob Newhart

Happy 85th birthday, Bob Newhart! The famously deadpan comedian wrote a characteristically titled autobiography: I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This.

A Goodreads quote - what we inadvertedly teach the children

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. 

James Baldwin

August 2, 1943: The day author James Baldwin turned 19, he attended his stepfather's funeral and witnessed the start of a riot in Harlem. He wrote about all these events in his book of essays, Notes of a Native Son.

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perhaps one of the reasons children of abusers also become abusers....... see, they think that it is okay to abuse because they see it being done and being condoned.  It is also okay to be abused because it is commonplace in their lives.

so we must also do what we say, because we are the shining - i hope - examples for the children;
not just our own, but all the children