The most important phase of a child’s life was the beginning of it. He must be started right. — Caroline Pratt Copy Share Image
Children who avoid the mistakes their parents made often make the mistakes their parents avoided. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It was a child's awareness, never spoken or even fully acknowledged, but deeply felt.” — Donna Woolfolk Cross Copy Share Image
The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation. — Ray Lyman Wilbur Copy Share Image
Play is the most natural method of self-healing that childhood affords. — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
Because they are children and for no other reason they have dignity and worth simply because they are. — Barbara Coloroso Copy Share Image
“We must learn and then teach our children that niceness does not equal goodness.” — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
I really believe that if you're going to bring a child into the world, it's your job to parent that world. Especially… — Jennifer Lynch Copy Share Image
Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can… — Debra Messing Copy Share Image
Instead of unfairly demonizing teachers, we should be working with them to find solutions to the problems in our schools and make… — Albio Sires Copy Share Image
Play is basic to all normal and healthy children. It provides pleasure and learning and a minimum of risks and penalties for… — Frank Caplan Copy Share Image
“The children you don’t especially need, you have always with you, like the poor. But the bright ones get away from you.… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
It's very important that your parents have careers of their own. When the kid becomes the breadwinner of the household, that's when… — Jaleel White Copy Share Image
“So what, exactly, is the positive reinforcement that’s being suspended when a child is given a time-out? Sometimes he’s doing something fun… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
Adults trying to protect children from reality, right? And adults always trying to fill children with fantasy - the tooth fairy, Santa,… — Shane Warren Jones Copy Share Image
Children need both latitude of expression and firmly enforced limits on their behaviors, in a blend that results in calm, patientmanagement. The… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Bad parents think it's everyone else's fault and responsibility when little Joey or Jane turns out to be a societal nightmare. Good… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have two sons, ages 23 and 25, and know that parents need to listen more and speak less. Young people today… — Christian Picciolini Copy Share Image
“A world where no child need cry because you didn’t buy him that ring pop at checkout, even though you know that… — Benjamin Wallace Copy Share Image
“Do not make the spanking a joke. Don't make it playful. Give him proper corporal punishment. It starts by setting the right… — Rebecca Lawson Copy Share Image
While few human challenges are greater than that of being good parents, few opportunities offer greater potential for joy. Surely, no more… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Research shows that normal young children misbehave every three minutes. — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
Parents should be able to develop goals about the type of parents they want to be. — Timothy Carey Copy Share Image
There is less difference than you would imagine entertaining little children and entertaining adults. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The best thing anyone can do in life is to give opportunities to a child. — Victor Ponta Copy Share Image
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain. — Bill Crawford Copy Share Image
When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours. — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
If you have children happiness should always come your way, your kids should be the only happiness there is . — Kia Watson Copy Share Image
“What has become of the world, when children are looked upon by their parents as trophies to be won?” — Donald Allen Kirch Copy Share Image
Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
India does not encourage - India has forbidden - child labour. We are a rule-based and rule-governed country. — Anand Sharma Copy Share Image
Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“To train a child in the way he should go, the trainer has to be in front of the same way providing… — Vincent Okay Nwachukwu Copy Share Image
