Quote

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.” Shel Silverstein




This quote is one of my favorites for a several of reasons.  To start, I absolutely love the author, Shel Silverstein.  I think that it is important that children are able to use their imagination and pretend to be something other than what they are in order to grow.  The second reason that this quote matters to me is that children are all too often labeled as "slow" or some other label that is seen as an indicator of their abilities.  I feel that the children should be given the chance to rise above the labels and ignore what they have been told they are not capable of to show the world that they are so much more than a label.