We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about strangers and foster fear in children.
Every hour that goes by with family separation policies in effect is another hour that mothers weep thinking of their children, another hour that kids are fearfully wondering where their parents have been taken, another hour that trauma deepens.
Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.
Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.
Your children don't have to fear you to respect you.
If I raised my hand to wipe the hair out of my children's eyes, they'd flinch and call their attorney.
Children would die of terror if they knew the folly and ignorance of their caretakers.
I've numerous times heard mothers in stores tell their children not to go near me.
We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.
There is no suffering like a child's, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose.
