“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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Jair Bolsonaro (1955) Brazilian president elect
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.”
Dallas Willard (1935–2013) American philosopher
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
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.”
Randy Pausch book The Last Lecture
The Last Lecture (2007)
“Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force into an immovable object.”
Laurence J. Peter (1919–1990) Canadian eductor
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 324
John Carroll (1944) Australian professor and author
Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974), p. 148