Family and Home
Virginia Spencer Carr was born in West Palm Beach, Florida, on July 21, 1929, to a pioneer family of the community. From the age of 12, Carr knew she wanted to someday be a writer.
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“Productive collaborations between family and school, therefore, will demand that parents and teachers recognize the critical importance of each other’s participation in the life of the child. This mutuality of knowledge, understanding, and empathy comes not only with a recognition of the child as the central purpose for the collaboration but also with a recognition of the need to maintain roles and relationships with children that are comprehensive, dynamic, and differentiated.”
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“The American father ... is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.”
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“Things are always better at home than a mile away.”
—Chinese proverb.