Kids have so much to teach us! Their perspective is so pure and innocent, and in observing them we can learn how to be better humans. Join me as I share some of the lessons I have learned from children in my life.   

And here are the quotes I shared at the beginning of class :)  

“Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.”   — Henry Ward Beecher, reverend and social activist 

“The soul is healed by being with children.”   — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist and philosopher 

“Every child you encounter is a divine appointment.”   — Wess Stafford, President Emeritus of Compassion International 

“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.”   — Franklin P. Jones, American humorist 

“Children see magic because they look for it.”   — Christopher Moore, writer 

“While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about.”   — Angela Schwindt, home schooling mom  

“Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.”   — Oliver Wendell Holmes, author and poet 

“Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.”   — Author unknown 

“Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”   — Robert Fulghum, author 

“Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.”   — Author unknown 

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”   — Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist 

“A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often”   — Author unknown 

“Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.”   — Fred Rogers, television personality 

“I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.”   — Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States 

“The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.”   — Orlando Aloysius Battista, Canadia-American chemist and author 

https://www.compassion.com/poverty/famous-quotes-about-children.htm 

"Children are not a distraction from more important work, they are the most important work." – C.S. Lewis