Kyoiku Mama/contemporary Ky%C5%8Diku Mamas

Famous quotes containing the words mama and/or contemporary:

    My Mama has made bread
    and Grampaw has come
    and everybody is drunk
    and dancing in the kitchen
    Lucille Clifton (b. 1936)

    The shift from the perception of the child as innocent to the perception of the child as competent has greatly increased the demands on contemporary children for maturity, for participating in competitive sports, for early academic achievement, and for protecting themselves against adults who might do them harm. While children might be able to cope with any one of those demands taken singly, taken together they often exceed children’s adaptive capacity.
    David Elkind (20th century)