Do Not Mistake A Child For His

Children Cannot Be Fooled By Empty Praise And Condescending Encouragement. They May Have To Accept Artificial Bolstering Of Their Self-esteem In Lieu Of Something Better, But What I Call Their Accruing Ego Identity Gains Real Strength Only From Wholehearted And Consistent Recognition Of Real Accomplishment, That Is, Achievement That Has Meaning In Their Culture.

You Can Actively Flee, Then, And You Can Actively Stay Put.

The Playing Adult Steps Sideward Into Another Reality; The Playing Child Advances Forward To New Stages Of Mastery.

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.

Personality, Too, Is Destiny.