Young children...are often uninterested in conversation It is not that they don’t have ideas and feelings, or need to express them to others It is simply that as one eight-year-old boy once told me, “Talking is okay, but I don’t like to do it all the time the way grown-ups do; I guess you have to develop the habit.”
ATTRIBUTION:
Robert Coles (20th century), U.S. child psychiatrist. Children of Crisis, ch. 3 (1964).
