“With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.”
Delia Ephron, Funny Sauce (1986)
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About the law for protection of children and adolescents at an event in Araçatuba on 23 August 2018. Bolsonaro diz que ECA deve ser 'rasgado e jogado na latrina' https://oglobo.globo.com/brasil/bolsonaro-diz-que-eca-deve-ser-rasgado-jogado-na-latrina-23006248?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=OGlobo. O Globo (23 August 2018).
“What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.”
Original: (it) Gli insegnamenti di un genitore sono fondamentali durante l'adolescenza di un figlio, affinché lui un giorno sia pronto ad affrontare la prova piú difficile: la vita.
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“Never lose the child-like wonder. It's just too important. It's what drives us.”
The Last Lecture (2007)
“Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force into an immovable object.”
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 324
Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974), p. 148