Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Being a parent is the toughest thing I've ever done. But I'm not the kind of person to throw my kid in… — Eric Dane Copy Share Image
Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment - their greatest object being… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
Parents are trying to be friends with their kids rather than draw the line and tell them what proper public behavior would… — Gallagher Copy Share Image
“The small child walks to develop his powers, he is building up his being. He goes slowly. He has neither rhythmic step… — Paula Polk Lillard Copy Share Image
“Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannise their teachers.” — Socrates Copy Share Image
I think parenting well is not so different than trying to consider how to be successful at any relationship. Like, how do… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
. . .from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“What is intuitive to most parents was clarified by biological research: families matter. In the last two decades, scientists in the area… — Michael Gurian Copy Share Image
“Momma was with the pony last night. Lily and me have him in the mornings, and we give him a wash with… — Kirsty Logan Copy Share Image
“Society tried to teach me that children are by nature selfish, out-of-control, and demanding, that their goal is power and that they… — Hilary Flower Copy Share Image
“Our own egos are so fragile we cannot bear to give our lives to the raising of children only to have them… — Heather Choate Davis Copy Share Image
Darling, my darling, don't think that I don't love you or that I didn't love you, but it's precisely because I love… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
In certain circumstances where he experiments in new types of conduct by cooperating with his equals, the child is already an adult.… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Games can be art, and they can be significant and all the glorified things that we want them to be. But if… — Kim Swift Copy Share Image
We may look back in horror that we allowed our children to be born of the random processes that nature provides. — Riccardo Sabatini Copy Share Image
“Children did this. They sensed when there was something controversial or sensitive and they pushed and pushed like tiny prosecutors.” — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
Childhood is all about innocence. Being constantly surrounded by cameras and shutterbugs, makes children lose that innocence. It's terrifying and worrying, to… — Soha Ali Khan Copy Share Image
“Maybe getting to know a child wasn't entirely unlike meditation. You kept going at it from all different angles, and once in… — Jean Thompson Copy Share Image
“You need to be proud of the fact that you survived everything you went through as a child. Don't seperate yourself from… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the premises of parenting might be that the job of parents is to teach their kids to get along without… — Timothy Carey Copy Share Image
If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery. — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
I'll teach my kids right from wrong, but I'm never going to teach them that they can't have fun. They'll make mistakes;… — Louise Nurding Copy Share Image
The arguments about parents being too permissive and kids growing up without superegos are not based on fact. Our research tells us… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
Do all kids have to worry about their parents’ mental health? The way society is set up, parents are supposed to be… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
“When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they’re not really concerned about him;… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Educate yourself. Understand what you're dealing with. Then figure out how to fight it. Then figure out how to raise money for… — Boomer Esiason Copy Share Image
As a parent, do the right thing and you don't get in trouble. If you lead a charmed life, you better act… — Leigh Anne Tuohy Copy Share Image
Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their… — Delia Ephron Copy Share Image
“This is what we need from our parents, more than the truth about how small we are. We will have more than… — Wendy Walker Copy Share Image
Kids have a way of letting you know if they like something or not. If a child of five says she doesn't… — Sushmita Sen Copy Share Image
I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my… — Paul Giamatti Copy Share Image
I was just, as a child, very different from the others, and didn't really care what they thought because you know, a… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
I was a problem child, and problem children do the seemingly insane because they are trying to find out how to fit… — Leo McCarey Copy Share Image
Love is not shown by giving your toddler a car. It's better demonstrated by clapping as she bangs on pots or singing… — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
