Children are all foreigners.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Children often seem as strange or distant as people from another culture.
- In plain terms
- Children feel like they belong to a different world.
- What can you take from it?
- Approach children with curiosity and open minds.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you see children?
- Are you a stranger to kids?
Another view
Some children are very similar to adults in thought.
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