Every parent knows this moment in a child's age when he or she needs your attention in a very specific way because… — Nicole Ari Parker Copy Share Image
If you talk to your children, you can help them keep their lives together. If you talk to them skillfully, you can… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
“People think power makes them big, but it brings out their inner bratty child and makes them small." - Grady Adams -… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The spiritual message is we lose our lives in pleasing others; if you're the good child who pleases Mommy and Daddy but… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
If you have many children, the first one is always different because you can only have one child who is the first.… — Erno Rubik Copy Share Image
They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's not easy for you, Dad You seek your own space You slope off to watch telly But still see (Mom's Mum's… — John Walter Bratton Copy Share Image
All children are born pure egoists. They perceive their needs to the exclusion of all others. Only through socialization do they learn… — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
“I just saved your fucking life, Mom...It's like, if you--people of a certain age--would make some effort to just stay in touch… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Children, then, acquire social skills not so much from adults as from their interactions with one another. They are likely to discover… — Zick Rubin Copy Share Image
As the writer of a pseudonymous book, I gave up my own accumulated history as a novelist and became what I had… — Susan Shreve Copy Share Image
I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers'… — Larry Harvey Copy Share Image
“The difficult task of learning how to make moral choices, how to accept personal responsibility, how to deal with the chaos of… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Parenting is a profoundly reciprocal process: we, the shapers of our children's lives, are also being shaped. As we struggle to beparents,… — Augustus Napier Copy Share Image
I doubt that we can ever successfully impose values or attitudes or behaviors on our children certainly not by threat, guilt, or… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
The minute you become a parent, you're always going to wonder if you're doing something wrong, and I certainly experience that on… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
Before I had kids, I looked at every other parent and thought: 'They have kids, they go to work and have nights… — Frankie Bridge Copy Share Image
“Children are much more apt to share and talk while building something, playing cards, or riding in the car than when you… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
The child is thinking and receiving vibrational thought from you on the day that he enters your environment. That is the reason… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
Parents who press their children to succeed do so in hopes of preparing them for an adulthood of high achievement. — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
Inuring children gently to suffer some degrees of pain without shrinking, is a way to gain firmness to their minds, and lay… — John Locke Copy Share Image
If you want to have a more pleasant,cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, emphatic, consistent, loving parent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
“Children everywhere have similar ways of entretaining themselves. If you look at it this way, the world isn't so big.” — William Kamkwamba Copy Share Image
Yes, it is true that sometimes unusually intelligent and sensitive children can appear to be stupid. But stupid children can sometimes appear… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The benefit of rich families putting their child through Harvard is always going to exist. But it's quite evident that there are… — Michael J. Saylor Copy Share Image
If we wish to unfold the mind in our children we do not leave them to their own uncultivated taste in all… — Charles Webster Leadbeater Copy Share Image
“Oh, the joy of the arrival of a child, which is both the one and the other, a mirror in which husband… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right. — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the road of life after you have shown… — Confucius Copy Share Image
There are so many people around young kids nowadays it can make it very tough and difficult - people who think they… — Per Mertesacker Copy Share Image
The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Men and women of character raise strong children who are not easily influenced by the media, corrupt schools, bad friends, and the… — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The emergence of a child opens up this well of love that you just never knew you were able to have. And… — Sarah Drew Copy Share Image
A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Anybody who thinks there is any vague chance of adult exchange with a child is up the spout; and would be much… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
“Adults are just making things up as they go along. And when they’re scared, adults have no more answers than us kids” — Mike A. Lancaster Copy Share Image
I love Southeast Asia. As a child, I lived in that part of the world. My first time in Burma was in… — Muhtar Kent Copy Share Image
And we're fortunate if we have parents who are great and loving and inspiring. But, unfortunately, there are people who don't have… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
