A child embarrassed by his mother,” she said, “is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.

All children are sad,
but some get over it.

Let each child have that's in our care. As much neurosis as the child can bear

“Spare the rod and spoil the child” is not sadistic; it is hard common sense. You fail your children worst if you do not punish them when they need it. The lessons you fail to teach them will be taught later and much more harshly by a cruel world, the real world where no excuses are accepted.

They spare the rod, and spoyle the child.

If the child is unwell, attention must be turned to the state of the mother’s health. Administering drugs to the child is as good as murdering it, for the child with its delicate constitution, easily succumbs to their poisonous effects. Hence the medicine should be administered to the mother, so that its beneficial properties may be transmitted to the child through her milk. If the child suffers, as it often does, from cough or loose bowels, there is no cause for alarm; we should wait for a day or so, and try to get at the root of the trouble, and then remove it. Making fuss over it and falling into a panic only makes matters worse. ... The use of shoes prevents the free circulation of blood and the development of hardy feet and legs. Dressing the child in silk or lace cloths, with cap and coat, and ornaments, is a barbarous practice. Our attempt to enhance by such ridiculous means the beauty that Nature has given, only bespeaks our vanity and ignorance. (Part II, Chapter IX, Care of the Child)

I guess——" she said, wistfully—"I guess the only thing that's wrong with children is that they grow up to be people like you.

Save the world by torturing one innocent child? Which innocent child?

The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.

Children are really desperate to see the world as pleasing; and their desperateness is part of a wise hope.

4238. Spare the Rod, and spoil the Child.

"غريب حقاً, حرصكم على أطفالكم عندما يمرضون انكم لاتفهمون " سيكلوجيا التداعي " حين يترابط الحب والمرض , فكلما شعر الطفل بحاجة الى حبك ,ادعى المرض . ومن ذا الذي يعتني بطفل سليم الصحة أوبزوجة أو زوج معافيين؟.وكأن الحب كالدواء لايحتاجه إالا المرضى"

"In Nigeria, her mother had said, children were always getting themselves into mischief, and surely that was better than sitting inside reading and staring into space all day.” (Part 1, Chapter 3, Page 21)

for a mistake, my God, you don’t make a child suffer!