Famous quotes containing the words risk, aversion and/or equal:
“The risk for a woman who considers her helpless children her job is that the childrens growth toward self-sufficiency may be experienced as a refutation of the mothers indispensability, and she may unconsciously sabotage their growth as a result.”
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century)
“Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the childs life were crucial. Education should start earlier than age seven, within the family. It should not be so hard as to give the child an aversion to learning. Rather, these early lessons would take the form of playthat embryonic notion of kindergarten.”
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)
“The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little beings mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because its too hard.”
—John Lennon (19401980)