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Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

~Fred Rogers

Topics: About Childhood Children Learning Often Play Really Relief Serious Talked Were Work

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I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

~Fred Rogers

Topics: Anticipation Begins Child Climax Compare Ending Familiar Favorite Holiday Like Listens Moments Pleasure Season Story Suspense Takes Turns Way

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When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'

~Fred Rogers

Topics: Always Boy Find Helping Look Me Mother News People Say Scary See Things Who Will Would You

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Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.

~Fred Rogers

Topics: Best Exactly Gives Growing Knowing Loved Opportunity People Us

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I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

~Fred Rogers

Topics: Child Discipline Everyday Helping Learn Process Self-Discipline Think I Think

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You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.

~Fred Rogers

Topics: Acceptable Else Everybody Everybody Else Feel Know Like Look You

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How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.

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Topics: Give How Just Like People Sad Up Us Who

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Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.

~Fred Rogers

Topics: Bright Future Go Join Leave Like Loom Own Parents Past Patterns Threads

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Celebrity

Born: March 20th, 1928

Died: February 27th, 2003

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