WIST Quotations Has Moved!Aug 13, 2025

A quotation from John Adams

It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1775-10-29) to Abigail Adams

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/adams-john/78363/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #inspiration #childrearing #childraising #children #guidance #parenting #teaching

skuaAug 7, 2024

Wondering about how folk see #Autonomy and #SelfSovereignty in relation to #Vaccinations, #PublicHealthLockdowns, #MaskWearing, #AgedCare, and #ChildRaising

Recently was told that #NZ under #JacintaArdern was far more fascistic than #Australia around #PublicHealth durring the emergency phase of the #Covid pandemic.

WIST Quotations moves again!Mar 21, 2024

A quotation from Ginott, Haim:

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What is the goal of parenting? It’s to help a child grow up to be a decent human being, a mensch, a person with compassion, commitment, and caring.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/ginott-haim/67989/

#quote #quotes #quotation #character #childrearing #childraising #goodperson #parenting

Between Parent and Child, ch. 10 "Summing Up" (2003 ed.) [with A. Ginott and H. W. Goddard] - Ginott, Haim | WIST Quotations

What is the goal of parenting? It’s to help a child grow up to be a decent human being, a mensch, a person with compassion, commitment, and caring.

WIST
Nicole HennigFeb 20, 2024
Raising children on the eve of AI • Otherwise https://juliawise.net/raising-children-on-the-eve-of-ai/ (interesting thoughts from a parent) (I’m not one, by choice) #AI #ChildRaising #future
Raising children on the eve of AI • Otherwise

How do we prepare them for what we're not prepared for?

Otherwise
DaoYangMay 28, 2018

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/26/gender-wars-household-chores-comic

Time to share the mental load...

#gender #feminism #chores #childraising

The gender wars of household chores: a feminist comic

French comic artist Emma introduces the concept of the mental load. When a man expects his partner to ask him to do things, he is viewing her as the manager of their household chores

The Guardian