“So much developmental trauma can be avoided if we simply give children the right to exercise their natural right to play, to move, to explore the outdoors unsupervised… if we let children be children!”
"While it is important to educate children, what is much more pressing is the need to love them. When education becomes more important than love, it is no longer education at all. For, tending to the delicate spirit of children is foundational if education is to fulfill its intended purpose of serving the greater whole."
- Vince Gowmon
Love
"Remind yourself daily: While education is useful, it’s love that children and the world need. A deeply loved child with only some education will go much further than a well educated child lacking love."
- Vince Gowmon
Love
"Too much leading and we create anxiety for children. Too much following and the same is true. In wisdom we find balance between the two."
- Vince Gowmon
Balance
"Don’t educate a child to become something or someone, educate to help them explore and celebrate who they already are."
- Vince Gowmon
Self-awareness
"Stop trying to turn children into someone they are not. Instead, let them unfold into who no human can imagine them to be."
- Vince Gowmon
Self-awareness
"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."
- Vince Lombardi
Well-being
"Sometimes you lie in bed at night and you don’t have a single thing to worry about. That always worries me!"
- Charlie Brown
Well-being
"People waste their time pondering whether a glass is half empty or half full. Me, I just drink whatever’s in the glass."
- Sophia Petrillo
Well-being
"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work."
- Robert Orben
Well-being
"If you think your boss is stupid, remember: You wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter."
- John Gotti
Well-being