Julia Cameron Quotes

For me, I want my kids to find their way. If they're interested in something, I want them to try it out.

I think it's necessary to let kids get bored once in a while - that's how they learn to be creative.

It is so important to allow children to bloom and to be driven by their curiosity.

I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

A lot of the problems teenagers go through, it's better for them to go through them on their own. If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.

I learned a lot from other people, and was inspired by what they did, but I didn't copy anyone. I put many different blocks together to become what I am. I don't know if that would have happened if everything was handed to me on a plate.

For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.

The determination to outwit one's situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.

Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which they must do everything, as something lacking an inner guide and in constant need of inner direction. . . . An adult who acts in this way, even though he may be convinced that he is filled with zeal, love, and a spirit of sacrifice on behalf of his child, unconsciously suppresses the development of the child's own personality.

Raising myself and caring for my brothers and sisters allowed me the benefit of a lot of information that I wouldn't have otherwise gotten. I had to be frugal, thoughtful, resourceful. I didn't have anyone to tell me, 'You can't.'

I am writing to make sure that kids don't lose very important traits like curiosity that can drive social change because oftentimes I think parents emphasise more on doing well in school, which is important, but perhaps that sometimes comes at the cost of a child's natural curiosity.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

I just like doing things from my own head.

If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.

Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things.

The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.

My mother set us to an activity and let us be.

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.