Age Quote by Alison Gopnik

The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.

— Confucius

Children who are not encouraged to do, to try, to explore, to master, and to risk failure, often feel helpless and inadequate. Over-controlled by…

— Susan Forward

Anxiety in the parent creates anxiety in the kid.

— Steven Rinella

I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.

— Anne Enright

Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with…

— Sigmund Freud

Children have a lot more to worry about from the parents who raised them than from the books they read.

— E. L. Doctorow

“Ultimately we want the children to catch their growing intensity themselves, to rely on their inner control rather than our control. By giving them…

— Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

“Since in early youth it cannot be known what ends are likely to occur to us in the course of life, parents seek to…

— Immanuel Kant

“Somehow kids are supposed to match the levels of calm and composure we might find in mature forty-seven-year-olds. Estimates”

— Tyler Cowen

Children are sensitive and receptive to the thoughts of others about them, and often outpicture the fears of their parents.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

Children go through things. They go through fads, mistakes, phases, and adults are supposed to guide them.

— Will Cain

Anxiety is the normality of our age,

— Alex Colville