When We Looked At The Life Cycle

Hope Is The Enduring Belief In The Attainability Of Fervent Wishes, In Spite Of The Dark Urges And Rages Which Mark The Beginning Of Existence. Hope Is The Ontogenetic Basis Of Faith, And Is Nourished By The Adult Faith Which Pervades Patterns Of Care.

There Is In Every Child At Every Stage A New Miracle Of Vigorous Unfolding.

Doubt Is The Brother Of Shame.

Someday, Maybe, There Will Exist A Well-informed, Well Considered And Yet Fervent Public Conviction That The Most Deadly Of All Possible Sins Is The Mutilation Of A Child’s Spirit; For Such Mutilation Undercuts The Life Principle Of Trust, Without Which Every Human Act, May It Feel Ever So Good And Seem Ever So Right Is Prone To Perversion By Destructive Forms Of Conscientiousness.

It's A Long Haul Bringing Up Our Children To Be Good; You Have To Keep Doing That — Bring Them Up — And That Means Bringing Things Up With Them: Asking, Telling, Sounding Them Out, Sounding Off Yourself — Finding, Through Experience, Your Own Words, Your Own Way Of Putting Them Together. You Have To Learn Where You Stand, And Make Sure Your Kids Learn [where You Stand], Understand Why, And Soon, You Hope, They'll Be Standing There Beside You, With You.