Child Quotes · Page 157

It's funny: everybody is going to have a little bit of different point of views when it comes to parenting.

— Haylie Duff

There are many things which no teacher can convey to a child of three, but a child of five can do it…

— Maria Montessori

“When a child's needs fail to be met, undesirable behaviors may surface.”

— Amy Fenton Lee

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

— Elbert Hubbard

I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.

— Joan Didion

I do think kids should be kids. You have the rest of your life to be an adult.

— Janet Jackson

A child likes discipline. He likes to know somebody cares.

— Agnes Moorehead

“Because...1 child that's unsafe...is 1 child too many!”

— Timothy Pina

One of the most visible effects of a child's presence in the household is to turn the worthy parents into complete idiots…

— Georges Courteline

The child who has no need to feign empirical knowledge about life can wonder and fantasise with great ease. The world is…

— Michael Leunig

Let your kids pick their punishments. Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around. It's easier, and we're usually right!…

— Bruce Feiler

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have children, but there can be no doubt that…

— Anonymous

One of the ways in which parenting is a learning experience and an opportunity for moral growth is that we learn as…

— Michael Sandel

There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no…

— George Bernard Shaw

Children do not grow up all of a piece; look for the child of seven, especially to take many backward glances at…

— Caroline Pratt

“Letting go of expectation when it comes to one’s children is close to impossible. The entire premise of our love for them…

— Cheryl Strayed

“they start in the ice garden, through the twins grow impatient with leisurely pace that celia prefers to take around the frozen…

— Erin Morgenstern

“This is what parents do -- what all of us do, in fact, when we're at our unrivaled best. We bind ourselves…

— Jennifer Senior

You're making the grant of affection, forbearance, mercy, out of your own experience and, of course, out of cultural tradition. You're saying,…

— Wendell Berry

A huge part of what a kid learns when they're growing up is social and emotional development. As adults, we take it…

— Tim Schafer

“I believe one of the most sacrificial acts of love adoptive parents can do is to give up their preconceptions and agendas…

— Sherrie Eldridge

“When you think your job is to change your child and you’ve been given the power to do it, your parenting will…

— Paul David Tripp

When so-called child's play turns hostile, and a child becomes a victim, it is time to act. Victims of cyberbullying do not…

— Linda Sanchez

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

— Jane Smiley

Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.

— Lemmy

Remember to love your parents...We are so busy growing up, we often forget they are also growing old.

— Anonymous

There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.

— Hugh Lofting

I'd like to have a child some day and I do want a big wedding.

— Maura Higgins

The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ...

— Bruno Bettelheim

Many kids are simply looking for some kind of acceptance. They're looking for someone to 'bring them in.'

— Wes Moore

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

— Charles Darwin

Puppies and kids naturally go together, but it's up to the adults to teach them how to do it the right way.

— Cesar Millan

You cannot work and be at home with your child. But you want both.

— Oriana Fallaci

With parenting, like any other skill in life, practice makes perfect.

— Jo Swinson

Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities.

— George Herbert

No parent should have their child die before he or she does.

— Phil Knight

If childhood is still a state, it is now chiefly a state of confusion.

— Phyllis McGinley

All children will do things that you may not want them to. That's part of parenting.

— Carl Hart

Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.

— W. H. Auden