Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can't poke enough holes to… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate when kids get hurt, but I wish parents would monitor what their kids are doing and watching. It's common sense,… — Johnny Knoxville Copy Share Image
“Which makes you wonder, are they really speaking real words or do little kids just start out naturally understanding each other before… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Hedge snorted. “Kids are baby goats. They’re cute, and they have redeeming social value. You are definitely not kids.” — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old. — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
A child... never takes time off as a child; time off does not begin until the principles of order have been accepted. — Heinrich Böll Copy Share Image
Perhaps we can never understand our own children, because there is too much of ourselves inside there, or perhaps we are just… — Dinty W. Moore Copy Share Image
Some ways are the ways we were taught, and those ways could be the wrong ways. You can always out do your… — Kevin McCarty Copy Share Image
If a child lives with criticism, it learns to condemn. If a child lives with hostility, it learns to fight. If a… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“Do you not realize that your kids are going to make mistakes, and a lot of them? Do you not realize the… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness.… — William Martin Copy Share Image
And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
In Romania, of course, gymnastics is among the most popular sports, and my parents had a dream of escaping the Ceausescu regime… — Dominique Moceanu Copy Share Image
When I was born, my dad and my mom gave me names, but in Africa, when your child is born, especially close… — Dikembe Mutombo Copy Share Image
“They say it is hard to raise children. They say I would understand it when I have children of my own. They… — Marcella Purnama Copy Share Image
Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a… — David Sobel Copy Share Image
In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
“...parents unconsciously start very early to teach girls how to be, that baby girls are given less room and more rules and… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
A child deserves love, affection, the chance to just play and do nothing, to sit under a tree, read a book, dream… — Sean Hepburn Ferrer Copy Share Image
If someone told my parents that their oldest child was going to be a major league pitcher, they wouldn't have believed it. — John Smoltz Copy Share Image
“You are a child of the universe Come to choose how to live here. You are a child of the universe Loved… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and… — Ruth Rendell Copy Share Image
I've never actually given birth to a child, but I suspect that going to a Justin Bieber concert with a child is… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“If we want to give our children what they need to thrive, we must honor their basic nature- boyish or girlish, introverted… — Wendy Mogel Copy Share Image
“They will grow up knowing that they should be only proud about being adopted. I will consider it a parental failure if… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
Along with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying — David Sheff Copy Share Image
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I see parents who bring their kids down because their parents did that to them, instead of reinforcing their gifts, and instilling… — Agapi Stassinopoulos Copy Share Image
Do the best you can. And remember that the greatest asset you have in this world is those children who you've brought… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Sometimes discipline, which means 'to teach,' is confused with criticism. Children-as well as people of all ages-improve behavior from love and encouragement… — Susan W. Tanner Copy Share Image
“My child, if I have any object in life, it is to provide for your being a good, a sensible, and a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Children seem to need, then, a delicate balance between the realistic and the fantastic in their art; enough of the realistic to… — Eric S. Rabkin Copy Share Image
Habits are learned. And children learn their habits by watching what we do, not by listening to what we say. So we… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
