We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
We are used to thinking in terms of what we can teach our children. Maybe we need to ask ourselves what we… — Piero Ferrucci Copy Share Image
“When children are taught to be "good" and keep everyone happy, it teaches them that they have the impossible burden of being… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the… — Sarah Hall Copy Share Image
Any child who is self-sufficient, who can tie his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Supernanny' was a format that was geared toward parents who had troublesome kids and didn't know how to cope with their behavior. — Jo Frost Copy Share Image
“I can see that an insufficent, or perhaps even defective, socialization process has led you to believe that four-letter words add power… — Preston and Child Copy Share Image
When a child is born, it's born with a heart of gold, but the way of this world can turn that heart… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
“Living with the “raw gem” of a persistent child is not easy. To tell these kids no, to thwart their efforts, is… — Mary Sheedy Kurcinka Copy Share Image
I had the worst birthday party ever when I was a child because my parents hired a pony to give rides. And… — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
It's tough for parents to talk to children about heavy-weight topics such as peer pressure, drugs and morality if they don't already… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
Another parent's different approach raises the possibility that you've made a mistake with your child. We simply can't tolerate that because we… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
If your boundary training consists only of words, you are wasting your breath. But if you 'do' boundaries with your kids, they… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
When you approach your baby with an attitude of respect, you let him know what you intend to do and give him… — Magda Gerber Copy Share Image
No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The great thing about getting married young like I did and having a child so young is that he gets to know… — Tony Danza Copy Share Image
I think anybody, not just children, is a product of a great environment. If you put them in a better environment from… — Usher Copy Share Image
When we look at that jingoism and the sexism and the racism and the homophobia, that's not who we are, and that's… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
The Children's Justice Campaign reminds us of our sacred obligation as adults to raise ourselves into consciousness so that our children may… — Shefali Tsabary Copy Share Image
Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Nobody can be whatever they want to be. No kid can do whatever they want to do. It's a total lie. But… — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents. If… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I don't like narrowing my readers down - there's not a particular age or gender or nationality. I suppose I'm aiming at… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being… — Jena Malone Copy Share Image
I known I'm only a child, yet I know we're all in the this together and should act as one single world… — Severn Cullis-Suzuki Copy Share Image
~My instinct is to protect my children from pain. But adversity is often the thing that gives us character and backbone. It's… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him… — Gabriela Mistral Copy Share Image
My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm.… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
How then do you love each of your multiple children, if not the best or even equally? The answer is, you love… — Marianne E Neifert Copy Share Image
One of the biggest gifts you can give a child is confidence, because confidence will take you miles - more than talent,… — Rafe Spall Copy Share Image
Having a child changes the way you are. So many more things are important because they learn from what they watch. — Joanna Page Copy Share Image
“he thinks that it is good to be a child, but it is also good to be a grownup and able to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Getting a family into work, supporting strong relationships, getting parents off drugs and out of debt - all this can do more… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
I didn't know I'd ever be able to love my second child like I love my first; she came out, and I… — Brad D. Smith Copy Share Image
My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions. — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
Parents decide to accept the responsibility of raising children. Any thanks they get for doing that is gravy. Grateful children are a… — Donald C Medeiros Copy Share Image
It's important that the kids stay busy. It's important that they have something to focus on, and something that they feel good… — Chita Rivera Copy Share Image
“But Urashima had remembered his old parents, and in Japan the duty to parents is stronger than everything else, stronger even than… — Yei Theodora Ozaki Copy Share Image
Although we human adults are really good at understanding other minds, we weren't always that way. It takes children a long time… — Rebecca Saxe Copy Share Image
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