The Art of Growing Up Quotes

“We must give our children fear. It is a rich and immensely valuable experience to know fear. Fear in context, fear that exists in complex relationships with other forces, fear that has limits and can be contained within safe places: this is the only way people at the beginning of their life journeys can develop an arsenal powerful enough to ensure that those journeys are healthy, satisfying and successful.”
― John Marsden, The Art of Growing Up

“Parenting means teaching children to get their own Weet-Bix.”
― John Marsden, The Art of Growing Up

“Schools in the 21st century are paying a heavy price for the errors of schools and teachers a generation ago. We are being punished for their sins.”
― John Marsden, The Art of Growing Up

“Politicians who use 'getting tough on law and order' as an election slogan are exploiting those who were abused as children, in order to gain power for themselves.”
― John Marsden, The Art of Growing Up

“families where the parents float around in a haze of brightly coloured hemp and honey-almond candles, a copy of a self-help book tucked under an arm, and a Dalai Lama keyring for their four-wheel-drive clutched in their hand.”
― John Marsden, The Art of Growing Up