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I'd say, "Well, you know a child who has cavities is not going to, uh, be able to study as well."
But I knew that Americans get irony when I came across that legislation, "No Child Left Behind."
Education under "No Child Left Behind" is based on not diversity but conformity.
One of the effects of "No Child Left Behind" has been to narrow the focus onto the so-called STEM disciplines.
And I know this because I spent my early life as a child.
If you can light the spark of curiosity in a child, they will learn without any further assistance, very often.
So when we think about child development, we all know that the first five years are a critical period for language and attachment in the brain.
It's realizing you can't have that child you now want, or you can't give your child a sibling.
Don't assume the natural choice is your spouse or child.
(Child shouting) Man 5: Go! Man 6: Holy [beep]!
Child: Whoa! Look at that snake!
The driver pauses after hitting the child, his back wheels seen resting on her for over a second.
You felt the empathy for that child.
This is a small child, a six-year-old, telling his eldest sister what to do.
What you have, actually, is there is one child operating the computer.
So this landscape would be easily able to house it, and I have to admit that there [is] a part of the child in me, the boy in me, that would love to see these majestic creatures walk across the permafrost of the north once again, but I do have to admit that part of the adult in me sometimes wonders whether or not we should.
She was facing the question of what to do with this child.
And I thought, "There it is again: a family that perceives itself to be normal with a child who seems to be extraordinary."
There are vertical identities, which are passed down generationally from parent to child.
Love is something that, ideally, is there unconditionally throughout the relationship between a parent and a child.
He said, "There is no reason to feel guilty about putting a Down's syndrome child away, whether it is 'put away' in the sense of hidden in a sanitarium or in a more responsible, lethal sense.
One of the families I interviewed, Tom and Karen Robards, were taken aback when, as young and successful New Yorkers, their first child was diagnosed with Down syndrome.
Do you wish your child didn't have Down syndrome?
Jim Sinclair, a prominent autism activist, said, "When parents say, 'I wish my child did not have autism,' what they're really saying is, 'I wish the child I have did not exist and I had a different, nonautistic child instead.' Read that again.
If I hadn't gone to Ohio State and crossed paths with Tom, this child wouldn't have existed, and this terrible thing wouldn't have happened.
I thought a lot about the mother of one disabled child I had seen, a severely disabled child who died through caregiver neglect.
And when his ashes were interred, his mother said, "I pray here for forgiveness for having been twice robbed: once of the child I wanted, and once of the son I loved."
And I figured it was possible, then, for anyone to love any child, if they had the effective will to do so.
And like all parents since the dawn of time, I wanted to protect my child from illness.
We took him to the MRI machine, we took him to the CAT scanner, we took this day-old child and gave him over for an arterial blood draw.
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