Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
It's absolutely crucial that every child-serving organization - be it an elementary school, daycare, or community center - provide its children with… — Darell Hammond Copy Share Image
I was a child of World War Two . I saw films of pilots taking off from aircraft carriers and decided that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But from the very start, there is that small streak of steel within each child. That thing that says “I am,” and… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
What do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
Children hates parents advice but you have to know their love must be hide in their advice so take parents advice positively. — Myself Copy Share Image
What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
“This, you see, is the danger of children: they are ambushes, each and every one of them. A person may look at… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of therules… — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
Kids take work, effort, love, blood, sweat and tears and are a full time job. You have to commit, for better or… — Dale Archer Copy Share Image
Somebody has to give a wakeup call to our coaching world to ask them real questions and show them that if you… — Ray Lewis Copy Share Image
“When a child is not permitted to express her pain, one of the important, destructive messages she gets is that if she… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
“I can think of another quickie education for a child, which, in its way, is almost as salutary: Meeting a human being… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The first six years of a child's life, it is like a tape recorder is on. Everything it sees, smells, touches, experiences… — Bruce Lipton Copy Share Image
The roots of a child's ability to cope and thrive, regardless of circumstance, lie in that child's having had at least a… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
The child often sees only what he already knows. He projects the whole of his verbal thought into things. He sees mountains… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
“A parent who is respectful to his children and teaches them with dignity and respect will be respected by his children.” — Tedd Tripp Copy Share Image
A recent survey conducted by the University of Minnesota concluded that meth was involved in as many as 81 percent of child… — Mark Kennedy Copy Share Image
“I want you to teach your children to say no and I want them to know how to mean it and back… — Sparrow Rose Jones Copy Share Image
Childhood, with all its mirth, Youth, Manhood, Age that draws us to the ground, And last, Man's Life on earth, Glide to… — William Cullen Bryant Copy Share Image
The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery,… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
I like it when very little children think for themselves, because they do not have access to car keys or credit cards… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
Children exist in the worlds that adults create for them, both locally and globally, and their options are, by virtue of age,… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
“He tossed a word like a ball, never letting it fall. Instead it swam in the air, without care, strung together with… — David Paul Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
I have always believed that giving children choice is a terrible idea. The more choice you give, the more they will run… — Ulrika Jonsson Copy Share Image
“Children who experience anxious or ambivalent attachments to their primary caregivers may "fall in love" too easily, seeking extreme closeness right off… — Adam Cash Copy Share Image
As a child, I always remember our home, which was a flat just on the Barnes side of Hammersmith Bridge in London,… — Samantha Bond Copy Share Image
As a child, I spent a lot of time with things like Lego, building trains, cars, complex structures, and I really liked… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
We respect that children are smart, sophisticated and can handle things that adults typically don't think they can. — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
You know how it is: you're a kid, and you see your parents do something, you tend not to want to follow… — Brian Ortega Copy Share Image
Being a parent is the hardest thing in the world... the psychological toll it takes on you because these lives are in… — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
If you can't feel secure - and teach your children to feel secure - about 1-in-610,000 nightmare scenarios - the problem isn't… — Bryan Caplan Copy Share Image
For better or worse, stepparenting is self-conscious parenting. You're damned if you do, and damned if you don't. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only way to enjoy the fun of catching people behaving disgustingly is to have children. One has to keep having them,… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Kids who enter 'adulthood' without any strong attachments to people who know and care about them have a rough road ahead, to… — Rhea Perlman Copy Share Image
But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture.… — James Dean Copy Share Image
Teach your kids emotional intelligence. Help them become more evolved than you are. Explain that, for instance, not everyone will like them. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
Kids can relate to having some scary person living near their house. They can relate to, 'Hey, don't go near that house.'… — Fred Willard Copy Share Image
“The dominant view was that children were essentially defective adults. They were defined by the things they didn’t know and couldn’t do.” — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
