“Walter Mischel says the worst-case scenario for a kid from eighteen to twenty-four months of age is "the child is busy and… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
The colicky baby who becomes calm, the quiet infant who throws temper tantrums at two, the wild child at four who becomes… — Ellen Galinsky Copy Share Image
In sports as in child rearing, marital arguments, or tantrums, the same laws of learning apply; when an emotion is encouraged and… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them thus preserving the system.The children… — Quentin Crewe Copy Share Image
I would say that it's very difficult to personally construct your gender. I think a lot of it is socially constructed. If… — Abigail Tarttelin Copy Share Image
The hardest people to play in front of are my brothers and friends from childhood, because I can never take them seriously.… — Jimmy Butler Copy Share Image
“We are in the habit of saying that it was not in our power to choose the parents who were allotted to… — Seneca Copy Share Image
A sense of solitude is one of the most beautiful things that parents can give a child. It doesn't mean leaving the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or… — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
Every child has to disobey the father. Unless a child disobeys the father he never becomes mature. It is nothing, original, it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Germany is in terrible condition this year. This is particularly true of the working masses, who are so undernourished that tuberculosis is… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes… — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
I love working with horses. People say you shouldn't work with animals and children; that's wrong. You must only work with children,… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
If shadows were caused by the interplay between light and Life, a child's was still forming. An adult's was inextricably bound to… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
“When the child asks: "Why have the leaves turned red?" or "Why does it snow?" we launch into explanations which have no… — Neil Evernden Copy Share Image
More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children. It is writing that is… — Sonya Hartnett Copy Share Image
The Left is acting like a young child, saying 'I want peace'... A child says 'I want candy right away,' an adult… — Ehud Barak Copy Share Image
I was born in Africa but brought up in the north-east of England. Most of my childhood was spent living on a… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
If we grow old wisely, we lay aside the senseless forms and meaningless conventions of society and go back to a more… — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share Image
My philosophy is that I am a friend of the children. I don't think anyone should see them as pitiable subjects or… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“O Heavenly Children, God's messengers are as limitless as the fish in the sea. They come in all colors, regions, languages and… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
If any one idea can justly be called the American idea, it is that a child's circumstances at birth should not determine… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
I'm sure that growing up in the Midwest played a role in my chronic escapism. In fact, before I lived in France,… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
Western parents worry a lot about their children's self-esteem. But as a parent, one of the worst things you can do for… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
You can't be an environmentalist, you can't be an ocean steward without truly walking the walk and you can't walk the walk… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
“Science is not simply a matter of observing the world, experimenting with its elements and drawing reasonable conclusions. Otherwise, we would have… — Wolfi Landstreicher Copy Share Image
During my childhood in Cyprus, the British talked about the Cypriots as if the Cypriots were outsiders in their own country. And… — Angela Bowie Copy Share Image
Investing in women at home and abroad strengthens families, uplifts our children, improves health, makes communities and countries more peaceful, and brightens… — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
How could I get up there and say, 'People, we've got to do better,' when I was the poster child for everything… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
Stability can be a good thing, but it can also lead to apathy. I don't want to set that example for my… — Michael Easton Copy Share Image
There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“But my child is strong-willed,” many parents insist. “When he decides that he wants something he just keeps at it until I… — Gordon Neufeld Copy Share Image
Parents write to me, or come up to me after shows and ask me 'How can we get our children to be… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
Across the nation, there are thousands of individuals serving life or life-equivalent sentences for crimes they committed as children. This means they… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
Never work just for money. Money alone won't save your soul or build a decent family life or help you sleep at… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Someday, our children, and our children's children, will look at us in the eye and they'll ask us, did we do all… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“own, did that mean we were living the same story over and over again, down through the generations? That the young and… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
