Rearing a family is probably the most difficult job in the world. It resembles two business firms merging their respective resources to… — Virginia Satir Copy Share Image
Experiments show that children in unsupervised groups are capable of answering questions many years ahead of the material they're learning in school.… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
Albert [Brooks] was rare in that he could make adults laugh. He was a prodigy. At age 15 and 16, he could… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
I just found it interesting to talk to adults I admired, and to discover that the path they took was never all… — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
As a teenager and a young adult, I never felt like my own story was interesting enough to tell, so I always… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
Raising children is a spur-of-the-moment, seat-of-the-pants sort of deal, as any parent knows, particularly after an adult child says that his most… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Now '90210' is returning with an all-new cast of slightly more plausible teens. I'll be honest: I wish the old cast was… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
“Adults don’t have the same growth momentum that children do to help enable and amplify progress. In adults, change comes from hard… — Melissa Orlov Copy Share Image
That's the biggest problem existing in this country! People are always mixing up the word free and freedom. Free is something you… — Aaron Tippin Copy Share Image
There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The gender prism is just descending upon us. For instance, when we're girls of nine or 10 we may be climbing trees… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The Spaniards are perfectly right to govern these barbarians of the New World and adjacent islands; they are in prudence, ingenuity, virtue,… — Juan Gines de Sepulveda Copy Share Image
The real questions for parents should be: "Are you engaged? Are you paying attention?" If so, plan to make lots of mistakes… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
An early editor characterized my books as 'romantic comedy for intelligent adults.' I think people see them as funny but kind. I… — Elinor Lipman Copy Share Image
Fashions change, and with the new psychoanalytical perspective of the postwar period [WWII], child rearing became enshrined as thespecial responsibility of mothersany… — Sylvia Ann Hewlett Copy Share Image
It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use… — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry… — Cheryl Mendelson Copy Share Image
There are people who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Is this what it’s like for adults? When we were in school, we wanted to do nothing but travel the world and… — Noah Harris Copy Share Image
Now it's fantastic, this is a medium that adults should be able to enjoy, it's not just for our kids. I feel… — Rachael MacFarlane Copy Share Image
Domestic violence does not only happen to adults. Forty percent of girls age 14 to 17 report knowing someone their age who… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult… — John Green Copy Share Image
Time and space are absolute. Diseases are evil spirits that inhabit the body. Parallel lines never meet. The earth is the center… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Basque is one of the world's more alarming languages. Only a handful of adult foreigners, they say, have ever managed to learn… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first… — Xavier Becerra Copy Share Image
One of the greatest struggles of becoming an adult is figuring out what you want to do and what makes you happy.… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
A child is imprinted not by simply teaching. But their attention is like soft clay. The attention field of adults is stratified.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Without knowing it, the adults in our lives practiced a most productive kind of behavior modification. After our chores and household duties… — Mildred Armstrong Kalish Copy Share Image
I am twenty years old. To a world-wise adult, I am little more than a child. To any child, however, I am… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I accepted the forgiveness of God. I got off track as an adult and because I believe in God's grace, I believe… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Something we all have as kids and is beaten out of us as adults. Parents come up to me, "How do I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Isn't it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
If I had the power to influence Indian journals, I would have the following headlines printed in bold letters on the first… — Lala Lajpat Rai Copy Share Image
“The child race is fresh, eager, interested, innocent, imaginative, healthy and full of faith, where the adult race, more often than not,… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I think it's almost necessary for most people to have the freedom to pull back, and then re-enter at an adult level,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
What we have lived through, the 20th century, has been like a great party. Adults now have had the best time humanity… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Everybody dreams, but memory for dreams is famously elusive. Even Sigmund Freud, without the benefit of modern technology's electroencephalogram, or EEG, did… — Charles McPhee Copy Share Image
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