Children learn what they live

Children learn what they live

As I cleaned a closet, I discovered this wall hanging that I kept in my toddler's room in the late 1970's. It is by Dorothy Law Nolte , cop...

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Children Learn What They Live by Dorothy Law Nolte PhD. A poem written on childrearing for a weekly family column for The Torrance Herald in 1954. The poem was widely circulated by readers as well as distributed to millions of new parents by a maker of baby formula. She copyrighted it in 1972, and in 1998 expanded it into a book, co-authored with Rachel Harris, "Children Learn What They Live: Parenting to Inspire Values."

Children Learn What They Live If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn. If a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight.

Children Learn What They Live. "One of my earliest memories as a child is of this poem by Dorothy Law Nolte. I was adopted at birth, and the judge gave a copy of the poem to my parents. It sat on my dresser in a frame, and I still have it today. If you know an expecting mother or new parents, this would make a nice, inexpensive gift. There are plenty of printable versions available online." -Anonymous

Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated from their chance at community; interrupt kids with bells and horns all the time and they will learn that nothing is important or worth finishing; ridicule them and they will retreat from human association; shame them and they will find a hundred ways to get even. The habits taught in large-scale organizations are deadly.

Children Learn What They Live by Dorothy Law Nolte, Ph.D IDEA FROM: antikleidi.com (in Greek)

Children Learn What They Live is a simple yet beautiful poem written by Dorothy Law Nolte in 1954. The words are wise, passionate, and true.