If you get a child when you're 50, you'll understand what…

Every parent worries for their child, but I do worry that he's all right, and happy and stable, and that I've done the best…

— Heather Small

One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They should…

— Anonymous

“easy thing for a spirit to get used to. It is very confining, very limiting. So the child will cry out at suddenly being…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Some parents find it difficult to understand that children are Growing Up and not Growing Down.

— Terry Mark

Understand: as children and young adults, we are taught to conform to certain codes of behavior and ways of doing things. We learn that…

— Robert Greene

Taking the child's point of view demands good will, time, and effort on the part of parents. The child is the clear beneficiary. Parents…

— David Elkind

I will never understand children. I never pretended to. I meet mothers all the time who make resolutions to themselves. 'I'm going to ...…

— Erma Bombeck

Dear Lord, make me a better parent. Teach me to understand my children, to listen patiently to what they have to say and to…

— Gary Myers

“I’ve alway been struck by how little adults understand children, even their own fathers and mothers. Nothing should be kept from children on the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“In those days, you must understand, children were basically thought to be inadequate adults. A child’s nature was not something that could be developed,…

— Andrew Davidson

Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.

— Kate Morton

“To a child, whatever is being done by adults is good and worth imitating. Many children have embraced societal vices as they emulated adults,…

— Benjamin Nzuki

“And if that illustration will not move you, here is another: -- We are children now; we feel as children, and we understand as…

— Anne Brontë

“They say it is hard to raise children. They say I would understand it when I have children of my own. They say I…

— Marcella Purnama

“Sometimes it is very difficult to keep in mind the fact that the parents, too, have reasons for what they do-- have reasons, locked…

— Virginia M. Axline