Famous quotes containing the word helping:
“When helping others, do not look for a reward; if you are looking for rewards, dont help others.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The books may say that nine-month-olds crawl, say their first words, and are afraid of strangers. Your exuberantly concrete and special nine-month-old hasnt read them. She may be walking already, not saying a word and smiling gleefully at every stranger she sees. . . . You can support her best by helping her learn what shes trying to learn, not what the books say a typical child ought to be learning.”
—Amy Laura Dombro (20th century)
“Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homeworkan inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self- sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.”
—Betty Friedan (b. 1921)