Child's Play: Enriching Your Child's Interests, from Rocket Science to Rock Climbing, Stamp Collecting to Sculpture

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Citadel Press, 2003 - 256 pages
The author shows ways to foster a child's curiosity and creativity with activities ranging from rocket science to rock climbing, stamp collecting to sculpture.

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Stop Look and Listen
19
Choosing an Interest
41
The Heart and Soul of Interests
70
Avoid Collecting Dust
97
In Pursuit of InterestsPart
123
In Pursuit of InterestsPart II
141
Pitfalls
161
Special Interest Groups
180
Take a Hike
191
Molding Young Artists
204
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Page 17 - Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
Page 18 - Judge of thy improvement, not by what thou speakest, or by what thou writest; but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.
Page 18 - He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears, is more than a king.
Page 7 - Renzulli, director of the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented at the University of Connecticut.
Page 17 - Every man without passions has within him no principle of action nor motive to act.
Page 16 - One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
Page 16 - German photographer passionate interest in what you do is the secret of enjoying life, perhaps the secret of long life, whether it is helping old people or children or making cheese or growing earthworms. Julia Child, b.
Page 16 - A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
Page 18 - Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.
Page 99 - The Strange Life of Objects: 35 Centuries of Art Collecting and Collectors, translated by David Pryce-Jones.

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