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Pretend Toys, Nurture Your Children Imagination ... A wide variety of choices of pretend toys are offered in the market. Many of them are a perfect imitation of grown up...
Pretend Toys, Nurture Your Children Imagination ... A wide variety of choices of pretend toys are offered in the market. Many of them are a perfect imitation of grown up...
Perhaps an understanding that early childhood is not the only important stage of childhood, that the middle years are equally important, may lead parents to . . . devote more time and attention, more care and supervision, to their post-toddler children, capable and unchildlike though they may seem. . . . Perhaps an understanding of the importance of play in children’s lives . . . will provoke parents to take a stronger stand in controlling their children’s television viewing, television being the greatest replacement of play among today’s children. . . . Perhaps an understanding . . . that children do not prosper when treated as equal, will encourage parents to take a more authoritative, not authoritarian—position in the family. . . . Perhaps the recognition that a highly complicated civilization cannot afford the period of nurture and protection of its immature members will restore a real childhood to the children of coming generations.
—Marie Winn (20th century)
With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young children to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world!
—Jane Addams (1860–1935)
Today the two cities seem to stand in contrast to each another. Florence has become a bustling and vital modern city. Whilst it may no longer nurture Michelangelos and Botticellis, there are native Florentine painters of international renown. Its ancient craft of leatherwork plays a distinctive role in contemporary fashion, and Florentines have effectively revived the old skills with stuffs and dyes and organized their distribution on a scale which dwarfs the network of the once ubiquitous Medici banks. Venice instead is apparently a city belonging only to her past, an empty shell of former glories. Its native population diminishes constantly, deserting the island for the industrial wasteland that threatens to destroy what is left of millennial grandeur. Its last remaining industry makes baubles for the tourists who come in droves to stay on a statistical average of eighteen hours, to mill about and to gawk at the remaining relics of the Seremissima’s magnificence.
—Peter Lauritzen. Venice: A Thousand Years of Culture and Civilization, preface, Atheneum (1978)