“The parent can change his mind in the context of respectful appeal, but not in the presence of blatant rebellion.” — Tedd Tripp Copy Share Image
I was a very special child. I did stand-up comedy. I did it all. My family didn't understand. 'Aren't you tired?' I'm… — Alessandra Torresani Copy Share Image
When you have kids, like I do, you have to also make sure that nothing, in terms of renovation and doing up… — Sussanne Khan Copy Share Image
We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may… — Joe Manchin Copy Share Image
For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been… — George Will Copy Share Image
There is a time in our life when we need to strut our stuff and groove on grandiosity, when we need to… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
My wife and I had been to the genetic counselor; my wife is not Jewish - she's the shiksha goddess type -… — James Gray Copy Share Image
“When you're a child you're the center of everything. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to. But when… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“As children, we think that whatever world surrounds us is normal. As I entered fourth and fifth grades and began spending time… — Hannah Hart Copy Share Image
I think. as a child, there's something frightening about certain adults, particularly when you're in their clutches or power. That must be… — Bertie Carvel Copy Share Image
We cannot protect our children from life. Therefore, it is essential to prepare them for it. Feeling sorry for children is one… — Rudolf Dreikurs Copy Share Image
This child is not mine as the first was; I cannot sing it to rest; I cannot lift it up fatherly, And… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Development, it turns out, occurs through this process of progressively more complex exchange between a child and somebody else- especially somebody who’s… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
As one of four daughters, I grew up with an imaginary brother - wondering what it would have been like if one… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Parents are satisfied only if their children are gifted or exceptional (or diagnosed with a treatable problem that the right pill cocktail… — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image
People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but… — Democritus Copy Share Image
I don't want to be preachy, but I find it so disturbing that parents today want kids to be a certain way… — Vidya Balan Copy Share Image
“If they are not distorted by outside influences the relationship between a baby and her carers can help the adults to grow… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“What a child knows about transformation is very little. What an adult knows, I think, is even less. Because a child at… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“In every child who is born, under no matter what circumstances, and no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race… — James Agee Copy Share Image
All my life I've had a weight problem. As a child, I loved to eat. I would hide from my mother and… — Maria Conchita Alonso Copy Share Image
You'd think after 8 years of things called 'The Patriot Act' and 'No Child Left Behind' they would know that we have… — Hal Sparks Copy Share Image
The benefit of rich families putting their child through Harvard is always going to exist. But it's quite evident that there are… — Michael J. Saylor Copy Share Image
Yes, it is true that sometimes unusually intelligent and sensitive children can appear to be stupid. But stupid children can sometimes appear… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the road of life after you have shown… — Confucius Copy Share Image
There are so many people around young kids nowadays it can make it very tough and difficult - people who think they… — Per Mertesacker Copy Share Image
If we wish to unfold the mind in our children we do not leave them to their own uncultivated taste in all… — Charles Webster Leadbeater Copy Share Image
“Oh, the joy of the arrival of a child, which is both the one and the other, a mirror in which husband… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right. — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
If you want to have a more pleasant,cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, emphatic, consistent, loving parent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Inuring children gently to suffer some degrees of pain without shrinking, is a way to gain firmness to their minds, and lay… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Parents who press their children to succeed do so in hopes of preparing them for an adulthood of high achievement. — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
“Children everywhere have similar ways of entretaining themselves. If you look at it this way, the world isn't so big.” — William Kamkwamba Copy Share Image
No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
Children who know that they have something to offer others will learn that they can shape the world around them for the… — Eric Greitens Copy Share Image
