Nothing ensures the success of the child more in the society than being read to from infancy to young adulthood. Reading books to and with children is the single most important thing a parent, grandparent, or significant adult can do. — Anita Silvey 0 It's not until recently that I co...
The term originated as a playful way to describe the transition from adolescence to adulthood, but it quickly gained popularity and became a widely recognized word. We commonly see the word adulting on social media as a hashtag, “#adulting.” Many young people started using the hashtag #adul...
According to Herodotus, the ancient Persians felt that what was necessary in the background of a young man entering adulthood was his ability to ride, shoot straight, and speak the truth. Perhaps we should now grant our college degrees to young men who measure up to that standard. —Jeff C...
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61. “One of the strange things about adulthood is that you are your current self, but you are also all the selves you used to be, the ones you grew out of but can’t ever quite get rid of.”― John Green 62. “It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bi...
Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind. ~ Alex Shakar A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. ~ Jean Rostand You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start...
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in touch with nature more than science. … Too few natural areas remain; both by intent and by indifference we have insulated ourselves from the wilderness that produced ...
Nancy.They can. How about Joan of Arc?... And Boadicea, and Jael,and— Harry.Well, they were exceptions... ~Elizabeth F. Guptill,A Brave Little Tomboy: A Play of the Revolution, 1912 We are living through the invention of independent female adulthood...After a long history during which...
A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. ...
Instead of being stories of hope for children, I suspect their massive appeal lies in the fact they are really wildly-nostalgic stories for adults about how broken childhoods (and sometimes even broken adulthoods) should have been. Glenda Millard author The Naming of Tishkin Silk book stories ...