Children are well one minute and very sick the next. So you have much less time than you have with adults.

He's hard to see when you look for him.

It seems obvious now: the child who spends school days in a fog of semi-comprehension has no way to know her problem is not that she is slow-witted.

Sensitive children come to be called “difficult” because adults have trouble understanding their temperament and because parenting methods that work with other children are frustratingly inadequate with this group.

Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all. We disregard them, we say they forget, because they have not the words to make us remember.

People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.

Why can’t parents see their children’s pain?” “I’ve had to ask myself the same thing. It’s because we haven’t seen our own.

What an old person sees while sitting, a child, even if he gets up, will not see!

Today our approaches to children are fragmented and partial. Those who care for well children know little of children who are sick. The deep knowledge that comes from the intensive attempt to cure is separated from the knowledge of those whose main task is to teach.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

People get sick from ''not wanting to see''.

It's hard to be what you can't see.

Little feet of children,
two tiny suffering jewels,
how can people pass
and not see you!

As a mother, it is not easy to wait for a missing child to return -- it is very hard.