Kids Can Spot A Phony A Mile

The Roots Of A Child's Ability To Cope And Thrive, Regardless Of Circumstance, Lie In That Child's Having Had At Least A Small, Safe Place (an Apartment? A Room? A Lap?) In Which, In The Companionship Of A Loving Person, That Child Could Discover That He Or She Was Lovable And Capable Of Loving In Return. If A Child Finds This During The First Years Of Life, He Or She Can Grow Up To Be A Competent, Healthy Person.

The Thing I Remember Best About Successful People I've Met All Through The Years Is Their Obvious Delight In What They're Doing And It Seems To Have Very Little To Do With Worldly Success. They Just Love What They're Doing, And They Love It In Front Of Others.

I Am Always Comforted By Realizing That There Are Still So Many Helpers - So Many Caring People In This World.

Children Long To Know That They Are Lovable. And There Are Ways That Technology Can Help With That. But Ultimately It's Their Relationships With Their Parents, Their Grandparents, Their Peers, And Their Teachers That Help Them To Know That For Sure. A Child Can Learn The Word "hug" And The Letters H-u-g Through A Computer, But A Computer Can Never Give The Child A Hug.

You Know, You Don't Have To Look Like Everybody Else To Be Acceptable And To Feel Acceptable.