What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Small child once you were a hope, a dream. Now you are a reality. Changing all that is to come. A love… — Charlotte Gray Copy Share Image
Our role as parents is to do all we can to create an atmosphere where our children can feel the influence of… — Cheryl A. Esplin Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I don't remember anyone ever mentioning cellulite. There were no adverts, as far as I recall, for… — Rebecca Front Copy Share Image
“And the little prince said to the man, 'Grownups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children… — Melanie Klein Copy Share Image
Spending time with the child or adolescent in mutually enjoyable activities on a regular basis will help to build warmth and trust. — Timothy Carey Copy Share Image
It will be true work that the kids can follow, as opposed to a facade of you doin' something, and you're doin'… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
“As much as childhood was the greatest thing that most of us have ever experienced, with it characterized by our care free… — Njabulo P. Vilakazi Copy Share Image
“we’re wired for story and in the absence of data we will rely on confabulations and conspiracies. When our children sense something… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Whether it is fear of having fish pie or staying in someone's house or not being able to tell the time, all… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Curiosity rocks. Don’t discourage it. Our instinct as parents is to say, “Oh no, don’t do that” when our toddler surprises us… — Janet Lansbury Copy Share Image
But I don't think any parent can expect to escape this life without disappointing his child at some point. And the same… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
Obviously no parent does everything right. It's this weird thing that happens where you are striving to be as good as you… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
It is not the child as a physical but as a psychic being that can provide a strong impetus to the betterment… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
One current reaction to change in families, for example, is the proposal for more "education for parenthood," on the theory that this… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
“Mind what you say, but mind more closely what you do. For though children close their ears to you, their eyes remain… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mechanism. Because I could… — Catherine Tate Copy Share Image
A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We had to give each other permission to be different as parents. That's why there's a mom and a dad with two… — Bridgette Wilson Copy Share Image
One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely… — Charles Sturt Copy Share Image
“But when alone--really alone--everyone is a child: or no one?' Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Parents have a child, and in doing so they bring into the world a monster that kills everything it comes in contact… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
“When a child is immersed in a certain environment, his thinking is formed by roles models of behavior demonstrated by parents in… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
He just was being four. He just was being a child. He wasn't interested in what my agenda was. He wanted to… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
When your child is looking up at you, and you are putting them to bed at night, and they are just lying… — Shane Filan Copy Share Image
As adults we play a role in abuse...and if you are not protecting children, you are neglecting them AND THAT IS ABUSE. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make… — Ann Douglas Copy Share Image
“Parents that provide a nonviolent, fostering, strong and steady background for their children assist in impede violence and abuse in their households.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“They say a happy childhood is a lousy preparation for life. Kids who spend their playground days fat, ginger or gay know… — Adam Baker Copy Share Image
A child can live with anything as long as he or she is told the truth and is allowed to share with… — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“...for if we try to go on protecting them we prevent them from growing up to be ordinary, confident adults, capable of… — Dorothy Rowe Copy Share Image
The child is not a prisoner of its inheritance; it holds its inheritance as a new creation which its future actions will… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The ugly reality is that peer pressure reaches its greatest intensity at just the age when kids tend to be most insensitive… — Walt Mueller Copy Share Image
You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try,… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
I was a feral child. Always on the go. My mother used to sew bells into my dresses so they would know… — Sophie Kennedy Clark Copy Share Image
If you work hard and play by the rules, you'll have a better life than your parents did, and your children will… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
Although we human adults are really good at understanding other minds, we weren't always that way. It takes children a long time… — Rebecca Saxe Copy Share Image
