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“The point is to help him get past his upset feelings so that he can begin to think about solutions himself, not to solve the problem for him. When he expresses his feelings about something, you’ll want to listen and acknowledge, rather than jumping in with solutions. That means you’ll have to manage your own anxiety about the issue (which means breathe your way through your anxious feelings and resist taking action).”
― Laura Markham, Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting

“the adult’s role is to “teach children limits with love or the world will teach them without it.”
― Paula Polk Lillard, Montessori from the Start: The Child at Home, from Birth to Age Three

“Put off this sloth,' the master said, 'for shame!
Sitting on feather-pillows, lying reclined
Beneath the blanket is no way to fame -

Fame, without which man's life wastes out of mind,
Leaving on earth no more memorial
Than foam in water or smoke upon the wind”
― Dante Alighieri

“We do not lack devices for measuring these miserable days of ours, in which it should be our pleasure that they be not frittered away without leaving behind any memory of ourselves in the mind of men.”
― Leonardo da Vinci