«Childhood should be happy»

All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection.

Alice Miller

Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development, compared to children whose parents use authoritarian methods and punishment.

(Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty)

Simon Baron-Cohen

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

Dave Pelzer, A Child Called "It"

If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don’t think it’s the children who need to be adjusted.

Stefan Molyneux

The most precious thing that we as humanity hold, is the innocence in that of a child’s smile, and we have a moral obligation to preserve it.

Victor L Guerrero

Like stars are to the sky, so are the children to our world. They deserve to shine!

Chinonye J. Chidolue

We don’t yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.

Alice Miller