You cannot properly bring up children when you are 69 or 70 and they are 12 and at the height of their… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
“I'm more interested in arousing enthusiasm in kids than in teaching the facts. The facts may change, but that enthusiasm for exploring… — Seymour Simon Copy Share Image
In 50 years, the world has changed, especially for kids, but kids' needs haven't changed. They still need to feel safe, be… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
Nobody knows how to raise your child better than you do. They're yours. Use some instincts. Be willing to listen to others. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“If you want a couple of weeks in bed (as I did, bi-annually), and if you have indolent and credulous parents, it’s… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Parenting is the most important thing to many of us, and so it's also the place we're most vulnerable. We're all a… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
I'm an only child, so I never had sisters to tell me what I should like based on my gender. I liked… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The great thing about getting married young like I did and having a child so young is that he gets to know… — Tony Danza Copy Share Image
Parents, do you wish to see your children happy? Take care, then, that you train them to obey when they are spoken… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The goal in raising one's child is to enable him, first, to discover who he wants to be, and then to become… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
“When we focus narrowly on what we should be doing, we become blind to our attachment relationship with our children and its… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“It is a central paradox of contemporary parenting, in fact: we have an acute, almost biological impulse to provide for our children,… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
When I was a child, the FA Cup was one of the crown jewels of the sporting year, along with the Grand… — Gary Neville Copy Share Image
Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had… — Lois Wyse Copy Share Image
Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“[children]can thus learn the art of loving and know truly that when they think a thought they release a tremendous power or… — Peter Tompkins Copy Share Image
When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
But I think that parents who criticise their children too much are in fact better than parents who praise their children too… — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
The mind of a little child is fascinating, for it looks on old things with new eyes-but at about twelve this changes.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
To be a parent, you must be authoritarian. If the Zambians want to succeed, they must learn to work hard, and they… — Michael Sata Copy Share Image
if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to… — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
“How strange it is that when I was a child I tried to be like a grownup, yet as soon as I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We not only respect babies, we demonstrate our respect every time we interact with them. Respecting a child means treating even the… — Magda Gerber Copy Share Image
I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt,… — Jamie Bell Copy Share Image
Every child deserves to see themselves in stories they can enjoy, but it isn't the place of white people to decide how… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
“Staying for your children is noble. However, staying with someone that teaches your children that "selective" evilness is okay is mental illness.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were… — Harpo Marx Copy Share Image
“Parents are a role model for their youngsters and how they act with these small ones or in front of them can… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
I think if we could raise one generation of kids without violence and shaming, we don't know what might be possible. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Too bad for any parent who has become accustomed to ruling by force, because at some point the kids just get too… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“She thinks I’m a child who needs to be protected from the horrors of grown-ups, because she somehow forgot that the world… — Sam J. Miller Copy Share Image
Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a… — Major Owens Copy Share Image
Its easy to have kids, people try to scare you into thinking "oh its hard to have kids" Its not. I have… — Dan Cummins Copy Share Image
My mom used to say it doesn't matter how many kids you have... because one kid'll take up 100% of your time… — Karen Brown Copy Share Image
I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
Having a kid motivates you to really take stock of yourself and how much of yourself you want to be reflected back… — Cory Barlog Copy Share Image
I think the arts are absolutely necessary for children to be creative and express themselves because every child is different. — Kym Whitley Copy Share Image
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