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Eda LeShan Quotes about Children

All Eda LeShan Quotes Children quotes Feelings

A child can live with anything as long as he or she is told the truth and is allowed to share with loved ones the natural feelings people have when they are suffering.

A child can live with anything as long as he or she is told the truth and is allowed to share with loved ones the natural feelings people have when they are suffering.

Children, Grief, Long

Eda J. LeShan (1978). “Learning to say good-by”, Avon Books

We have kept our children so busy with "useful" and "improving" activities that we are in danger of raising a generation of young people who are terrified of silence, of being alone with their own thoughts.

Children, People, Silence

Education is in danger of becoming a religion based on fear; its doctrine is to compete. Our children are being led to believe that they are doomed to failure in a world which has room only for those at the top.

Children, Believe, Rooms

Eda J. LeShan (1967). “The Conspiracy Against Childhood”, New York : Atheneum

It helps parents to feel better if we remind them of our failures with them! And how they turned out just fine despite our imperfections.... We never get over needing nurturing parents. The more we comfort our own adult children, the more they can comfort our grandchildren.

Children, Feel Better, Parent

Every time a child is born, we have another chance.

Children, Another Chance, Chance

It is strange but true that although we may have learned all sorts of important facts while raising our own children, when we become grandparents we still tend to forget a whole lot of things we knew.

Children, Grandparent, Important

the highest priority for any government concerned with its own future and the peace of the world community ought to be the facilities it provides for the care and nurturance of young children.

Children, Government, Priorities

We found ... that being a good parent to one's own child was never and in no way enough; until we were all responsible for all the children of the world, no child would ever be safe, no society could survive.

Children, Parent, World

We all wanted babies - but did any of us want children?

Baby, Children, Want

Eda J. LeShan (1965). “How to survive parenthood”

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