“Children grow up hearing how broken the environment is, how broken beyond repair. Plant strawberries together, make wild medicines, paint the sunrise. Show them proof that for every act of destruction, they can sow a seed, however small, of beauty.”
Nicolette Sowder
PinTo raise a nature-bonded child is to raise a rebel, a dreamer, an innovator… someone who will walk their own verdant, winding path. – Nicolette SowderPinYour children need your presence more than your presents. – Jesse JacksonPinGive me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted. – Vladimir LeninPinWhile we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. – Angela Schwindt
“It’s time to return to childhood, to simplicity, to running and climbing and laughing in the sunshine, to experiencing happiness instead of being trained for a lifetime of happiness. It’s time to let children be children again.”
L.R. Knost
PinThe greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. – Denis WaitleyPinPlay is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children, play is serious learning. – Mr. RogersPinEncourage your child to have muddy, grassy or sandy feet by the end of each day, that’s the childhood they deserve. – Penny WhitehousePinHistory will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children. – Nelson Mandela
14 Inspirational Quotes About Raising Children
“The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn’t been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.”
Pablo Casals
PinToo much love never spoils children. Children become spoiled when we substitute presents for presence. – Anthony WithamPinThe gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving. – Polly Berrien BerendsPinA child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit. – Francois RabelaisPinChildren are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded. – Jess LairPinOld men can make war, but it is children who will make history. — Ray MerrittPinHugs can do great amounts of good, especially for children. – Princess DianaPinA person’s a person, no matter how small. — Dr. SeussPinThe soul is healed by being with children. — Fyodor DostoyevskyPinPretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children. — Oliver Wendell HolmesPinThe first happiness of a child is to know that he is loved. – Don BoscoPinChildren see magic because they look for it. – Christopher MoorePinLet us remember: One book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world. – Malala YousafzaiPinYour children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. – Lisa Wingate
16 Wise Quotes on How to Raise Children (WISDOM)
“Our job is not to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. Our job is to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.”
L.R. Knost
PinChildren need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity. – Kay Redfield JamisonPinThe best education does not happen at a desk, but rather engaged in everyday living – hands on, exploring, in active relationship with life. – Vince GowmanPinIt is vital that when educating our children’s brains we do not neglect to educate their hearts by nurturing their compassionate nature. – Dalai LamaPinTeach your children they’re unique. That way, they won’t feel pressured to be like everybody else. – Cindy CashmanPinChildren are likely to live up to what you believe of them. — Lady Bird JohnsonPinEvery child needs a parent, grandparent or friend who will say let’s go it’s time for an adventure. – Penny WhitehousePinDo not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you. – Richard DawkinsPinTeaching is not about answering questions but about raising questions – opening doors for them in places they could not imagine. – Yawar BaigPinI have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. – Harry S. TrumanPinAlways smile back at little children. To ignore them is to destroy their belief that the world is good. – Pam BrownPinIf you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money. – Abigail Van BurenPinThe best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day. – Orlando Aloysius BattistaPinIf you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. – Albert EinsteinPinReading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift. – Kate DiCamilloPinThere are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
12 Quotes on Raising Children in Nature
“Playing together in nature is as much about us as it is about the child. Children get to celebrate and be themselves, while we are reminded of our inner child – the essence of who we are.”
Nicolette Sowder
PinWe must teach our children to smell the earth, to taste the rain, to touch the wind, to see things grow, to hear the sun rise and night fall – to care. – John ClealPinNature is a tool to get children to experience not just the wider world, but themselves. – Stephen MossPinAnything you teach in an indoor classroom can be taught outdoors, often in ways that are more enjoyable for children. – Cathy James
“When children play in natural spaces, they’re far more likely to invent their own games than in more structured settings – a key factor in becoming self-directed and inventive adults later in life”
Richard Louv
PinTeaching children about the natural world should be treated as one of the most important events in their lives. – Thomas BerryPinThe Mud will wash off but the memories will last a lifetime.PinIt’s a wondrous thing how the wild calms a child.
“Don’t wait until your child’s school understands how important green time is for their growing minds. Today, leave the homework untouched, in favour of outdoor play and real-world learning.”
Penny Whitehouse
PinTeach children to be kind to everything that lives.PinWhen little people are scared of something in nature, it’s our job to hold their hand and show them its beauty and purpose. – Penny WhitehousePinWhat do parents owe their young that is more important than a warm and trusting connection to the Earth…? – Theodore Roszak
6 Quotes About Children Imitating Parents
PinChildren are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate.PinToday our children are our reflection. Tomorrow they will be our shadows. – Maralee McKeePinChildren learn more from what you are, than what you teach. – W.E.B. Du BoisPinDon’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. – Robert FulghumPinChildren have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James BaldwinPinChildren need models rather than critics. — Joseph Joubert
11 Quotes About Raising Children that Will Make You Think
“If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, then let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it. Perhaps this is what Thoreau had in mind when he said, ‘the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think the same is true of human beings.’”
David Sobel
PinWe worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. – Stacia TauscherPinOur challenge isn’t so much to teach children about the natural world, but to find ways to sustain the instinctive connections they already carry. – Terry KrautwurstPinChildren must be taught how to think, not what to think. – Margaret MeadPinA child miseducated is a child lost. – John F. KennedyPinChildren have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. – Ernest DimnetPinChildren are not only innocent and curious but also optimistic and joyful and essentially happy. They are, in short, everything adults wish they could be. – Carolyn HaywoodPinIt took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. – Pablo PicassoPinLet parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. – PlatoPinChildren begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. – Oscar WildePinHealthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. – Erik Erikson
2 Funny Quotes About Having Children
PinChildren are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.PinNever have more children than you have car windows. – Erma Bombeck
6 Quotes About Being Parents
PinThe most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. – Theodore HesburghPinMother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are. – Cheryl Lacey DonovanPinMother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. – William Makepeace ThackerayPinWhat it’s like to be a parent: It’s one of the hardest things you’ll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love. – Nicholas SparksPinBeing a parent wasn’t just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life. – Jodi PicoultPinThere is no such thing as a perfect parent. So just be a real one. – Sue Atkins
8 Motivational Quotes About Our Next Generation
PinOur most important task as a nation is to make sure all our young people can achieve their dreams. – Barack ObamaPinIf we wish to create a lasting peace we must begin with the children. – Mahatma GandhiPinIt is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. –Frederick DouglassPinI prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace. – Thomas PainePinIf a man leaves little children behind him, it is as if he did not die. – Moroccan ProverbPinWe don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.PinChildren are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. — John F. KennedyPinLet us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow. – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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