![]() ![]() Even though your child is beginning to look and act more and more like an adult, he still desperately needs your love, nurturing, and support.They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. They don’t remember what it’s like to be 12 years old. That’s the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. When we are children we seldom think of the future.When I was still in a stroller, I couldn’t wait to be older,īut now that I’m older, I’m somewhat unsure,.Zig Ziglar, Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World The more solid, sensible, common-sense, loving steps we take, the greater the chances of helping our children become the kind of children we want them to be and wish we had been when we were growing up.Yet Jesus taught that it is more blessed to give than to receive (Acts 20:35), and part of growing up is learning the art of giving.Deborah Williams, How To Talk To Your Kids & Grandkids Children love to hear stories about what their Mommies and Daddies were like growing up.Sometimes you have to grow up before you appreciate how you grew up.Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest – learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth.Jack Steinberg, Albert Einstein: The Life of a Genius Growing up was certainly not easy for Albert Einstein and part of the problem was the way in which his father’s business would either be struggling or close to failing on a number of occasions.It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.It was nice growing up with someone like you, someone to lean on, someone to count on, someone to tell on! Author Unknown.When I was growing up, I remember my mother saying, “Your friends are like elevators they will bring you up or down – the choice is yours.It’s about forming those relationships and finding what will last forever. Part of growing up is realizing you learn to love so many people.Oprah Winfrey, Food, Health, and Happiness But then we grow up, and if we’re smart and prepared and very determined, every once in a while we actually do get the life we wanted. As children, we don’t get to pick the ways in which we’re loved. ![]() As I learned from growing up, you don’t mess with your grandmother.Now that I am older you my sister I am grateful for. Growing up you sometimes got the blame for things I did, but you always loved me not matter what.Coveyīut somewhere between child and adult, things change He taught us that we were not victims of the circumstances surrounding us, but rather masters of our own destiny. One of the great lessons I remember my dad constantly emphasizing in our family while I was growing up was “Use your R&I.” That is, use your resourcefulness and initiative.Douglas Smith Jon Katzenbach, The Wisdom of Teams Parents, teachers, coaches, and role models of all kinds shape our values based on individual accomplishment. Most of us grow up with a strong sense of individual responsibility.Confucianism stresses a unity of all things in nature and perceives only differences in degree between human and animal capacities.David De Grazia, Animal Rights.To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.Growing old is mandatory growing up is optional.Henry Cloud John Townsend, Boundaries in Marriage There are immature old people, and there are appropriately mature young people. Age is a necessary but insufficient requirement for growing up.Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it.Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.We all need the voice of a parent or a good friend who has lived through joy and suffering and has thought deeply about it. We all need advice growing up and facing the big stuff life gives us.I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them – certain traits, certain places where you don’t let the world go. Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible.Daniel Goleman, Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence Today’s children are growing up in a new reality, one where they are attuning more to machines and less to people than has ever been true in human history.A collection of growing up quotes to remind us that growing up is not always easy, that growing up is not always a good thing, and that in life we should never wish our days away by wishing we were older. ![]()
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