“Something as superfluous as "play" is also an essential feature of our consciousness. If you ask children why they like to play,… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“This idea that children won't learn without outside rewards and penalties, or in the debased jargon of the behaviorists, "positive and negative… — John Holt Copy Share Image
Chimps can do all sorts of things we thought that only we could do - like tool-making and abstraction and generalisation. They… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“When we spoil something, we deny it the conditions it requires. . . . The real spoiling of children is not in… — Barbara Nicholson Copy Share Image
I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or… — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
“Here's to the kids who are different, The kids who don't always get A's, The kids who have ears twice the size… — Digby Wolfe Copy Share Image
As a child, I was just never that interested in the lives of my favourite actors, like Cary Grant. I do wonder… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
You can't just pillory the teachers unions and sound the free market trumpet. We must visit the failing schools. We must talk… — Frank Wolf Copy Share Image
“This was Josie’s preferred method of parenting: go someplace like this, with grand scale and much to be discovered, and watch your… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
The girl must early be impressed with the idea that she is to be "a hand, not a mouth"; a worker, and… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
“There’s a general sense now that children’s rights, children’s needs, children’s wants and desires have taken on too prominent a place in… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
“A child does what she does in order to meet her own needs. When we validate her feelings, find out what her… — Beatrice Ekwa Ekoko Copy Share Image
Every time you give a parent a sense of success or of empowerment, you're offering it to the baby indirectly. Because every… — T. Berry Brazelton Copy Share Image
the myth of childhood happiness flourishes so wildly not because it satisfies the needs of children but because it satisfies the needs… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
“This is a book for those of you who want to be parents as well as people, who don't want to feel… — Brett Berk Copy Share Image
We can best help children learn, not by deciding what we think they should learn and thinking of ingenious ways to teach… — John Holt Copy Share Image
It's a form of bullying, in my opinion, to make sure that your kid gets the best grades, the best jobs and… — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
Children are happy because they don't yet have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong." They… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
For me, the child is a veritable image of becoming, of possibility, poised to reach towards what is not yet, towards a… — Maxine Greene Copy Share Image
Children model the behavior of adults, on whatever scale is available to them. Ours are growing up in a nation whose most… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
We know that young babies, as they become capable of moving voluntarily, will share. They will share food, for instance, with their… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
What I've found in my life with our children is that often you can give them advice and tell them to eat… — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
“This, you see, is the true danger of children: they are ambushes, each and every one of them. A person may look… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
When you raise a child, you don't sit down and take all the rules of life, write them into a big catalog,… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
But then as time passed, I learned the lesson that parents do early on. You fail sometimes. No matter how much you… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about that.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“In order for us to reach the hearts of our children we must realize that there is far more to parenting than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I decided to become a doctor, I was very, very young, when my mother, her seventh child, became pregnant, and she… — Hawa Abdi Copy Share Image
“Eril-Fane let out a slow breath. “Were you afraid of the dark as a child?” A chill snaked up Lazlo’s spine. He… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
As children, we said no, we rebelled, we had temper tantrums and meltdowns. We tested our limits. Our parents' limits. All limits.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Parents abandon their children. Children abandon their parents. Parents protect or forsake, but they always forsake. Children stay or go but they… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
We FaceTime and Skype. My two older kids got iPods for their birthdays, so they can FaceTime their dad whenever they need… — CC Sabathia Copy Share Image
“When you have a child, you start to dream of how this kid will grow up and make you proud. The only… — Carol Lynn Pearson Copy Share Image
“At any moment of the day, some desire is in the process of coming true. Old seeds we planted (and perhaps forgot… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Listen, there is no way any true man is going to let children live around him in his home and not discipline… — Victor Devlin Copy Share Image
“Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that... Marlene Sanders... once gave this piece of advice to a younger journalist:… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Often, what makes my job so exciting is designing for the mother whose dream has been to wear one of my hats… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
“You know before you have kids, people would tell you—they change everything. That life is so much better with them. That it’s… — Amanda A. Allen Copy Share Image
I believe the way I describe the problems in Chicago is that it's a metropolitan area. I've said that everywhere. The uneducated… — Richard M. Daley Copy Share Image
