When it comes to parenthood everyone thinks they will be terrible at it. We don't think we have it in us. Then… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
“Goals are important, but what is more important is the connection that you build through mindful interaction with your child.” — Alan Yau Copy Share Image
There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It is difficult to give children a sense of security unless you have it yourself. If you have it, they catch it… — William C. Menninger Copy Share Image
I was a child when I first saw 'Vertigo,' and it was very disturbing because I didn't really understand what was going… — Allen Coulter Copy Share Image
“The trouble with child training is that parents teach their children not how to behave, but how not to behave.” — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
Become more and more innocent, less knowledgeable and more childlike. Take life as fun - because that's precisely what it is! — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Parents give you 'unconditional love' and 'unconditional monetary support' since our birth… What difficulties they went through to keep us happy and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I think children need to be nurtured for what they are as opposed to what you want them to be. I think… — Tyler Blackburn Copy Share Image
“Don't stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go… — Peggy O'Mara Copy Share Image
She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I think it's helpful for kids to know that their parents weren't perfect, that they messed up and learned from their mistakes.… — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
I think about that with kids - you want to do everything for them, but you realize if you do everything, and… — Miriam Shor Copy Share Image
“Why is a two-year-old so terrible? Because she is systematically testing the fascinating and, to her, utterly novel notion that something that… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
When you're moving your whole family you've got kids who've got to change nurseries, or schools for the older ones. — Dwight Gayle Copy Share Image
“At the greatest levels of affluence, and the deepest levels of poverty, parents share the same desire for their children to have… — Adam Braun Copy Share Image
“Everybody has it wrong way round. Parents don’t make children—children make parents. They shape our behavior from the first wail. Mold us… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
After having your first child, it's a massive shock to the system. I work in an industry where people judge you and… — Louise Nurding Copy Share Image
Kids before they're 7 or 8 are like little manic obsessives. They become completely hooked on things and they're slightly crazy. — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
I think that's important for all ages, to not be afraid of being an individual. I grew up on my own, as… — Noel Clarke Copy Share Image
“Bad emotions, bad parents, and bad feedback have more impact than good ones, and bad information is processed more thoroughly than good.… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Kids today are looking for idols, but sometimes they look too far ... They don't have to look any farther than their… — Bobby Bonilla Copy Share Image
parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in mood, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement-mixer long after one's… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
When somebody says, 'This must be a children's book,' basically they're saying, 'You must be a child.' And so my answer is,… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
“Children are deeply curious about odd behaviors and seldom offended or worried by them. What a remarkable gift to bestow on another… — Vivian Gussin Paley Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you… — Patrick Dempsey Copy Share Image
Every child is so helpless - just to survive he has to be political, he has to accept whatsoever the parents are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy… — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
“The really good parents I've encountered, on the other hand, expect their children to be noisy, messy, bouncy, squabble, whingy and covered… — Richard Templar Copy Share Image
Once you see a child's self-image begin to improve, you will see significant gains in achievement areas, but even more important, you… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“That's the thing about parents. They ask what you think, but they don't really care, or at least they don't care enough… — Peter Monn Copy Share Image
Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Norland nannies teach 'emotion coaching' which enables the child to talk through difficult emotions or events, and instructs them to find different… — Ulrika Jonsson Copy Share Image
“Will you teach me something?" I was about to say no, the viola really wasn’t the instrument to start learning with, but… — Jules Wake Copy Share Image
As children we all possess a natural uninhabited curiosity, a hunger for explanations, which seems to die slowly as we age--suppressed, I… — Mahlon Hoagland Copy Share Image
