Dr. John Trainer

Coined the line in 2012 · credited originator per C.S. Lewis quote researchers

Dr. John Trainer is credited by C.S. Lewis quote-researchers as the person who actually coined this line, having shared it in a Facebook conversation on 30 December 2012 and later supplied documentation of his authorship. Beyond that origin story, little is publicly recorded about him — but the specialist projects that track fake Lewis quotes give him the nod for the wording that the internet later re-pinned onto Lewis.

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“Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work”

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