Jan Hunt quotes

“Ignoring a baby's cry is like using earplugs to stop the distressing noise of a smoke detector. The sound of a smoke detector is meant to alert us to a serious matter that requires a response - and so is the cry of a baby.”
-- Jan Hunt

Source : Jan Hunt (2013). “The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart”, p.34, New Society Publishers

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“Children raised with love and compassion will be free to use their time as adults in meaningful and creative ways, rather than expressing their childhood hurts in ways that harm themselves or others. If adults have no need to deal with the past, they can live fully in the present.”
-- Jan Hunt

Source : Jan Hunt (2013). “The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart”, p.4, New Society Publishers

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“Toddlers ask many questions, and so do school children - until about grade three. By that time, many of them have learned an unfortunate fact, that in school, it can be more important for self-protection to hide one's ignorance about a subject than to learn more about it, regardless of one's curiosity.”
-- Jan Hunt

Source : Jan Hunt (2013). “The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart”, p.115, New Society Publishers

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“While there are other parenting books with insight into childhood, Parenting from Your Heart goes a step further, showing parents how to put theory into practice with their own child in a realistic, compassionate and effective way. This book is worth its weight in gold!?”
-- Jan Hunt

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“When we believe in our child fully, we trust that they are doing the very best they can at every moment, given their age, past experience and present circumstances. It is this kind of trust that I mean when I talk about parenting being on their child's side. Having someone dependably 'on their side' is absolutely critical if a child is to grow into adulthood with a generous capacity for love and trust. If we aren't on their side, who will be?”
-- Jan Hunt

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“As a homeschooling parent, I have often wondered who learns more in our family, the parent or the child. The topic I seem to be learning the most about is the nature of learning itself.”
-- Jan Hunt

Source : Jan Hunt (2013). “The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart”, p.113, New Society Publishers

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“It shouldn't hurt to be a child.”
-- Jan Hunt

Source : Jan Hunt (2013). “The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart”, New Society Publishers

#Hurt Quotes #Children Quotes

“All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.”

“I look at my kid, and one part of me wants to keep her as my little baby. But, y'know, the bottom line is she's 18!”

“The little babies are missing their families from their past lives.  The babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babies.  The tears loosen their memories so they can slide away.  They cry at the life they have lost, and then they cry at everything they'll forget.”

“Just shred baby, shred.”

“There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)”

“He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.”

“I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.”

“Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall.”

Source : Adelaide Crapsey, “November Night”

“I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.”

“My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)”