Young Mind Shaper Gifts

"If we could do anything right now...? We'd return to our respective homes and forget we'd ever met."

Multi-Generational Books

'This is a good time to be young, son. Look at all the opportunities you have in front of you...you can help sole the problems of the environment, poverty,civil rights....'

'This is what happens when we give up our resistance to change.'

'All dogs have 4 legs. Tabby has 4 legs. But I'm just a kid, so I don't have to think logically.'

"I'm sorry-you tapped into something no one cares about."

"Aren't you young to be worrying about college?"

'Mom, am I store-bought or homemade?'

"She's always been a quick learner."

"Tomorrow, we'll take on the tobacco industry."

'The position calls for a mature person with young ideas.'

The End of the World is NOT Nigh.

'If the key to effective classroom management is consistency, I guess I'm an effective classroom manager, I am consistently exhausted at the end of the day.'

'My problems seem small to you because you're so darn BIG'

"I think I'll be more relaxed once my secondary sex characteristics kick in."

'Ladies and gentlemen of the press...what is your verdict?'

'My job is to challenge young minds. Please try to cooperate, so that I don't lose mine.'

"Instead, I went with an ingratitude list."

"You know, we're not getting any younger...I mean, pretty soon, we'll both be 16."

"Five really snuck up on me."

"I'm diagnosing a conflict of interest . . . your body knows how old you are, but your mind refuses to believe it."

'Naughty or nice? -- I was hoping for a little more moral relativism.'

Half full head of hair, half empty head of hair.

Kid reading Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' as Dad brings in 'The Three Bears'.

'I don't want to play house... I want to play hard-to-get.'

"I'm working to change my mindset on January."

I can't eat my carrot. It's for my snowman.

"I find there's a lot of pressure to be good."

"Sometimes you just option it because your gut tells you this is a book that has to be butchered."

'Of course, I sweep everything behind that door.'

In an overnight Coup d'Esprit, right wing thoughts had taken up strategic positions inside Jonathan's mind.

Young boy talking about shaving

'No problem -- instead of thinking of yourself as a klutz, think of yourself as a performance artist!'

'Play post office? -- I don't like violent games.'

'Life isn't fair. Just when girls get interesting, they get taller than us.'