Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to… — Vanessa Mae Copy Share Image
We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children.… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
As children, we are remarkably aware. We absorb and process information at a speed that we'll never again come close to achieving...… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
In my own life, there's no amount of success or money that's more important than your child being healthy and happy. There's… — Paula Patton Copy Share Image
“It’s not the job of the child to make the parent happy. It’s the job of the parent to take care of… — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
“To abandon the child ‘within’ means that the adult ‘without’ will be an adult in name only. And frankly, I can only… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I firmly believe kids don't want your understanding. They want your trust, your compassion, your blinding love and your car keys, but… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries. — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count. I… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
When the child sees the parent looking for something, it is as natural for it also to look for the object and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“When a child isn't allowed to deal with his frustrations on his own—to cry, for instance, then to handle the situation, and… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
“The eternal child. - We think that play and fairy tales belong to childhood: how shortsighted that is! As though we would… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When I started acting classes, I was inspired. The truth is I never dreamt of being an actress as a child. But… — Ana Layevska Copy Share Image
A two-year-old can be taught to curb his aggressions completely if the parents employ strong enough methods, but the achievement of such… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
Almost everywhere we find . . . the use of various coercive measures, to rid ourselves as quickly as possible of the… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
The children's lessons should provide material for their mental growth, should exercise the several powers of their minds, should furnish them with… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
When parents blame other people for their child/children's action, that right there's a bad parent stop putting your responsibilities on others. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a parent, if you have multiple kids, you can't teach them all the same thing because they all have different personalities.… — LeBron James Copy Share Image
Contrary to what we've been told, children can detect deceit in parents much easier than parents can detect deceit in children. — Tim Sandlin Copy Share Image
“In one study, Cummings found that children’s emotional well-being and security are more affected by the relationship between the parents than by… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father. — Peter Fonda Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I dreaded blindness. We used to ask: 'Would we rather be blind or deaf?' I said I'd… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
“It's like parents choosing to raise their own standard of living rather than to provide for the future of their kids. You… — Sylvia Engdahl Copy Share Image
When people are hungry, when a mother or father is facing a child that they can't feed, you can't ask that family… — Ertharin Cousin Copy Share Image
When I had my first camera - I was a child of the '80s. I remember what it was like reusing the… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
Parents are much more likely to be attuned to what they don't like than they are to the expectations that the kid… — Ross W. Greene Copy Share Image
Parents test our patience more than anyone else...Being around them keeps you in check...that's what keeps you humbled. — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
You have to let go of the control and allow things to develop. You need to have a flexible attitude, especially working… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
Parents talk a lot about how much strength and dedication it takes to raise a child. I think it also takes a… — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
Nothing reassures parents more than surrounding their kids with the kind of guys who have a lot of weapons and nothing to… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it’s rarely a straight line.” — Eileen Kennedy-Moore Copy Share Image
You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time… — William D Tammeus Copy Share Image
I've raised my boys the old-fashioned way, with spankings, sending them upstairs if they misbehave at parties, the works. I believe discipline… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
I started to write as a child as soon as I could read, or even before, when my mother read me Beatrix… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
I'm trying to avoid, you know, guilt, even though before the child is born, you're already thinking you're doing things wrong... Why… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
It would be more interesting to learn from children, than try to teach them how to behave, how to live and how… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I have come to believe that in order to thrive, a child must have at least one adult in her life who… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
The experience of having a child does crack you wide open. I felt like I suddenly had to rebuild the skin that… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
Talking is so important. Talking to our children about how they're doing and how they're feeling and also thinking of ways big… — Cynthia Germanotta Copy Share Image
Imagination They say adults have no imagination. Not true. Just instead of dinosaurs and spaceships, they imagine silence and the new babysitter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
