Fairy Tales Are Loved By The Child

While Criticism Or Fear Of Punishment May Restrain Us From Doing Wrong, It Does Not Make Us Wish To Do Right. Disregarding This Simple Fact Is The Great Error Into Which Parents And Educators Fall When They Rely On These Negative Means Of Correction. The Only Effective Discipline Is Self-discipline, Motivated By The Inner Desire To Act Meritoriously In Order To Do Well In One's Own Eyes, According To One's Own Values, So That One May Feel Good About Oneself May "have A Good Conscience.

Among The Most Valuable But Least Appreciated Experiences Parenthood Can Provide Are The Opportunities It Offers For Exploring, Reliving, And Resolving One's Own Childhood Problems In The Context Of One's Relation To One's Child.

Television Captures The Mind But Does Not Liberate It. A Good Book At Once Stimulates And Frees The Mind.

The Goal In Raising One's Child Is To Enable Him, First, To Discover Who He Wants To Be, And Then To Become A Person Who Can Be Satisfied With Himself And His Way Of Life. Eventually He Ought To Be Able To Do In His Life Whatever Seems Important, Desirable, And Worthwhile To Him To Do; To Develop Relations With Other People That Are Constructive, Satisfying, Mutually Enriching; And To Bear Up Well Under The Stresses And Hardships He Will Unavoidably Encounter During His Life.

If We Hope To Live Not Just From Moment To Moment, But In True Consciousness Of Our Existence, Then Our Greatest Need And Most Difficult Achievement Is To Find Meaning In Our Lives.