Children's literature - the product of adult guesswork - often fails to account for its audience's slippery grasp on the world. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
I'm interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child. — Louis Garrel Copy Share Image
Children must have at least one person who believes in them. It could be a counselor, a teacher, a preacher, a friend.… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
When you find a way to be really receptive to your child's needs and really listen, you can be more open to… — Anna Getty Copy Share Image
One of the many problems with parenting is that kids keep changing. Just when you're used to one stage, they zoom into… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
It's very hypocritical to constantly say, 'We want to keep our kids close,' then send them home with so much homework that… — Marcia Gay Harden Copy Share Image
If it's your child, it's different. You don't care about those things. It's so minor. You become a parent and nothing else… — Kevin Federline Copy Share Image
“...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.” — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Although there are areas of overlap between working with psychotic and borderline children and with severely deprived children, some of the stresses… — Ved P. Varma Copy Share Image
Children don't just play any more - they're far too busy learning to fence and taking extra French classes. In the end,… — Shirley Henderson Copy Share Image
“If you're responsible enough to become a parent, then you should be responsible enough to accept your kid no matter how they… — T.J. Klune Copy Share Image
Children tease each other because you're short or you're tall or you're a redhead or because you're ugly or because you're smart… — Heather Wilson Copy Share Image
“...as Dr. Spock points out, raising happy children is an elusive aim compared to the more concrete aims of parenting in the… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
Once Joe Paterno learned that his former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was showering with a young boy in the Penn State football… — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
“The…destructive…message is that the parents don’t trust their children to do what they are supposed to do whether it be learning to… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
“All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I fancied… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
“It is ever the lot of children to accept their circumstances as universal, and their particularities as general.” — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
I just couldn't imagine hitting a child. But in 'The Slap' it's an extreme situation. You have to ask yourself - would… — Jonathan LaPaglia Copy Share Image
Why do grown-ups think it's easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don't they know about the horror stories we… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
If you take the same child and put them in two different places, it will dramatically shape the way in which their… — Gwen Ifill Copy Share Image
Consider yourself your own kid. Take care of yourself the way you would your own child. You wouldn't wait until your child… — Mandy Ingber Copy Share Image
Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close… — Lynn Johnston Copy Share Image
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Relearning from children their need to question and discover can ignite one's creativity and reveal more possibilities.” — Nabil N. Jamal Copy Share Image
I do not believe in a child world. It is a fantasy world. I believe the child should be taught from the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you… — Grant Hill Copy Share Image
Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
“A comprehensive study in the United Kingdom recently revealed that kids learn to rest in the same way they learn to walk,… — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
When I found out I was pregnant, my mother said, 'Don't separate your life, the life that you're going to make with… — Neneh Cherry Copy Share Image
A strong-willed child - a strong-willed child, more than anyone else, needs to learn to use emotion and discussion to resolve issues.… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they… — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
“Some parents whenever their children have an independent thought they wrap them up in warm ignorance and send them to bed” — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
If you do not give your children freedom, when they grow up, they will break away from the family, and then your… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“The more power you give your child in any discipline process, the more likely he will be to be able to make… — Hilary Flower Copy Share Image
I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for… — Dan Marino Copy Share Image
I'm one of those hovering mothers and I know it's really important to have an independent child, so I'm trying to back… — Selma Blair Copy Share Image
Trying to conceal the fact that I was a gay, effeminate, hyperactive, adopted child with a serious lisp in southern Louisiana would… — Kevyn Aucoin Copy Share Image
We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Our grandchildren accept us for ourselves, without rebuke or effort to change us, as no one in our entire lives has ever… — Ruth Goode Copy Share Image
