Haley Earley

“Now that I’m an adult, I realize that kids know at a very young age when they’re being devalued, when adults aren’t invested enough to help them learn. Their anger over it can manifest itself as unruliness. It’s hardly their fault. They aren’t “bad kids.” They’re just trying to survive bad circumstances.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Look how I’m managing, I wanted to say in those moments, to my audience of no one. Does everyone see that I’m pulling this off?”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Children cannot bounce off the walls if we take away the walls.”
― Erin K. Kenny, Forest Kindergartens: The Cedarsong Way