One thing we must accept about our children is that every child is completely unique.

The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it’s rarely a straight line.

When you see a well behaved adult, you see a well trained child

A kid is what you feed it,
plus from that what can be gathered.

Let children alone... the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone, not teasing them with perpetual commands and directions - a running fire of Do and Don’t ; but letting them go their own way and grow, having first secured that they will go the right way and grow to fruitful purpose.

Your typical Six-year-old is a paradoxical little person, and bipolarity is the name of his game.