15,393 Quotes About Children
- Author Bee Wilson
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Contrary to the impression given by the health pages of newspapers, the greatest single nutritional shortfall in our diets right now is not our failure to eat enough ‘superfoods’, whatever those might be. It is the iron deficiency of girls.
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- Author Bee Wilson
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Up until the age of three, children have a remarkable ability to stop eating when they are full.
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- Author Bee Wilson
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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.
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- Author Bee Wilson
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Every day, children are exposed to messages - whether on giant hoardings and TV ads or from looking in friends’ lunchboxes - telling them that they should like the very foods that will do them the most harm.
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- Author Bee Wilson
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Every culture seems to have certain challenging vegetables that children find hard to love at first bite.
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- Author Andrew James Pritchard
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I enjoy load shedding in Nepal, when it allows me to witness the dancing of fireflies in the next field, and at the same time to hear children playing a chanting clapping game because there is no TV to waste their time on.
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- Author Fred Rogers
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When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." To this day, especially in times of "disaster," I remember my mother's words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world.
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- Author Bee Wilson
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What children need is to develop the skills to navigate the environment for themselves.
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- Author Bee Wilson
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Large numbers of adults as well as children have now become habituated to eating a version of ‘kid food’ over a whole lifetime: sweet, salty, undemanding to chew and swallow and heavily processed.
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