Quotes About Development

It is curious that we talk so little about the flavour of formula, given that it is the main food many babies taste for that crucial first year.

Feeding is learning.

Prolonged chronic malnutrition affects children for the rest of their lives because it affects both brain development and growth.

If you can cancel a child's hunger during those first three years - from conception to toddlerdom -you create possibilities that stretch decades into the future. If not, the consequences can last for generations.

It is possible for children to learn and improve their eating skills in ways that will automatically lead them to a healthier diet.

Up until the age of three, children have a remarkable ability to stop eating when they are full.

The loss of hunger regulation after the age of four is a phenomenon that transcends cultures and continents.

From childhood onwards, our idea of fullness is heavily influenced by how much food we are offered.

In most places, for most of history, children's food has not existed as a separate category after the age of weaning.

After all, as omnivores, we were not born knowing what to eat. We all had to learn it, every one of us, as children sitting expectantly, waiting to be fed.

Parents and children resemble each other no more in the foods they like than couples do, suggesting that nurture - who you eat with - is more powerful than nature in determining our food habits. Whatever our innate dispositions, our experience with food can override them.

The true objective is independence: for a child to reach the point where they can regulate their own intake of food and to choose the things that will do them good while giving them pleasure. Weaning them off milk is one thing. But the real task for a parent is to wean children off needing you.

All the foods you regularly eat are the ones that you learned to eat. Everyone starts life drinking milk. After that, it's all up for grabs.

Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.

The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit--man.

There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.

That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterward makes him a manager of life.

Men's graces must get the better of their faults as a farmer's crops do of the weeds--by growth. When the corn is low, the farmer uses the plough to root up the weeds; but when it is high, and shakes its palm-like leaves in the wind, he says, "Let the corn take care of them," for the dense shadow of growing corn is as fatal to weeds as the edge of the sickle.

Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.

A people uneducated is like an iron mountain whose ore is unwrought.

No man ever grows to a full man's estate without the ministration of suffering.

Truths are first clouds, then rain, then harvests and food.