Children Quote by Anonymous

Research has convincingly demonstrated that using the "rod" creates children who are not more obedient but who are instead simplymore angry and aggressive than…

— Julius Segal

“Because the victims are “only children,” their distress is trivialized. But in twenty years’ time these children will be adult who will feel compelled…

— Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child

If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one…

— Dora Russell

Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into…

— Hugh Mackay

I think children are really violent with each other often.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

Much is made of the accelerating brutality of young people's crimes, but rarely does our concern for dangerous children translateinto concern for children in…

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“Children learn to justify their aggressive actions early: They hit a younger sibling, who starts to cry, and immediately claim, "But he started it!…

— Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson

As children, we said no, we rebelled, we had temper tantrums and meltdowns. We tested our limits. Our parents' limits. All limits. As parents,…

— Anonymous

Children don’t need beating. They need love and encouragement. They need fathers to whom they can look with respect rather than fear. Above all,…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term the results…

— Alice Miller

I will here say to parents, that kind words and loving actions towards children, will subdue their uneducated nature a great deal better than…

— Brigham Young

“The poisonous pedagogy justifies highly abusive methods for suppressing children’s vital spontaneity: physical beatings, lying, duplicity, manipulation, scare tactics, withdrawal of love, isolation and…

— John Bradshaw