Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I wasn't an overbearing child. But I was aggressive. I always managed to get what I wanted somehow. — Kristy Swanson Copy Share Image
Every child is a greedy child, I think. I mean, it's healthy to be a greedy child. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
As a young child, I suffered all sorts of digestive problems and was constantly under the weather. — Jameela Jamil Copy Share Image
Children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
not only have children most certainly a right to their own ambitions, but their own lack of ambitions. — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
It's also the environment that determines a considerable part of the growth and development of children. — Edward Zigler Copy Share Image
It's a paradox that most parents would never let their children associate with an undesirable person in their neighborhood, but many think… — Randall Wright Copy Share Image
You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same… — Mary Wesley Copy Share Image
“We’re not giving moms credit when we pose them as the decisive factor in a child’s development, we’re sticking them with the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first… — Kerri Walsh Copy Share Image
“The most important question I ask myself as a parent is this. How can I best help my children be fully themselves… — Lehla Eldridge Copy Share Image
“Children should have the absolute right to a happy childhood and be able to grow up in an environment which fosters their… — John McG. McMaster Copy Share Image
I was, like, this token teen angst child of Broadway. It's so funny. What is that? I don't even know. But I… — Jennifer Damiano Copy Share Image
I dream for a world which is free of child labour, a world in which every child goes to school. A world… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
We're living in a society where you need to be accountable for your actions, for your behavior - for yourself. To sit… — Ian Ziering Copy Share Image
Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
When you know your mom and dad are doing things that are not idyllic, as far as your desire to defer to… — Jason Bateman Copy Share Image
They say that childhood forms us, that those early influences are the key to everything. Is the peace of the soul so… — Josephine Hart Copy Share Image
Grown-up people do very little and say a great deal… Toddlers say very little and do a great deal… With a toddler… — Penelope Leach Copy Share Image
“3. SENSITIVITY: Keenly aware, spirited kids quickly respond to the slightest noises, smells, lights, textures, or changes in mood. They are easily… — Mary Sheedy Kurcinka Copy Share Image
“We all know that parents do not make children but that children make parents…Authentic parenting is one long sacrificial act…parenting reveals the… — Luke Timothy Johnson Copy Share Image
