Quotes About Development

We all have to go from not knowing to knowing. If you have shortcomings, I fully believe it's better to look them in the eye. Pretending otherwise gets you nowhere.

You're supposed to make mistakes. You're just starting out. Mistakes are a good thing. They mean you were brave enough to try something hard.

Neither one is any way to grow up.

Kids do stupid things. Even kids with good parents do stupid things. They're kids. No matter how you raise them, they're going to take a cruise through Stupid Land.

Stories, drama, and other symbols powerfully influence children.

As Jean Piaget studied children, he discovered that they were moral philosophers who struggled with good and evil, understanding and applying rules.

At various ages children become aware of different realities of the gospel.

School-age children become storytellers. Not only do they enjoy hearing stories, they can look back over the events of their lives and weave those events together into a story or narrative and, in the process, discover meaning in those concrete experiences.

Stories are at the heart of faith development for children; stories capture and communicate theology for them.

In the process of helping children prepare to minister and in doing ministry together, important relationships can develop between child and adult. When we know one another and are known, identity builds. Working together with adults, children have the opportunity to follow the example of those adults.

The incarnation affirms the importance of childhood.

To not be concerned about spiritual formation during childhood is to ignore the very foundations of the spiritual life.

Some forms of instruction seem to assume that the concept of the parent or the teacher can be fully captured in words and then transplanted, through the ears of the hearers, into their minds. This view of instruction sets the stage for failure. As adults, we can give children content—information and experiences—as material with which they can build understandings, but each child must construct his or her own concepts.

Children form their image of God in the context of relating to their parents and other significant adults.

Imagination is the power to form in our minds the images of reality. Fowler sees imagination as a powerful force in all learning not just in faith development. When young children use imagination to form their image of God, they are using a natural tool for learning.

The whole point of growing up is to get big enough to hold the world you want inside you. But it takes a long time, and you really must eat your vegetables, and most often you have to make the world you want out of yourself.

Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts.

Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.

We must not dwell on what we were in our salad days when soup days steam now upon the table!

Though any species on any dumb gobworld may develop sentience (the poor bastards), no government ever does'?

Most folk have three faces - the face they get when they're children, the face they own when they're grown, and the face they've earned when they're old.

Conservatism is not an attractive trait.

Neurobiology research has taught helping professionals that we need to "come to our senses" in developing effective components for trauma intervention.

Taken as a whole, maltreatment and neglect demonstrate a powerful capacity to create enduring dysfunction in multiple domains. The earlier in a child's life maltreatment occurs, the greater the risk of enduring and pervasive problems into adulthood (Perry, 2005, 2008).