Assessment Quote by Benjamin Zander

The one thing about kids is that you never really know exactly what they're thinking or how they're seeing. After writing about kids, which…

— Stephen King

With all the stories that we have, it's still rare that we get to see what goes on in the minds of our children…

— Rachel House

“The popular view that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an…

— Agatha Christie

The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives.

— Stephen King

We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to…

— Sigmund Freud

“We are all tellers of tales, and we seek to provide our scattered and often confusing experiences with a sense of coherence by arranging…

— Dan P. McAdams

Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that…

— Lillian Hellman

“And if that’s the case—if we are our remembering selves—then it matters far less how we feel moment to moment with our children. They…

— Jennifer Senior

Sometimes our childhood experiences are emotionally intense, which can create strong mental models. These experiences and our assumptions about them are then reinforced in…

— Elizabeth Thornton

“Sometimes, reading to my children at night, the perverse thought would come to me that in rehashing for them the same fairy stories, Bible…

— Nicole Krauss

It's funny how when you're little, you miss all the little lies. They float right past you, but you don't wonder about them much.…

— Anonymous

In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.

— Dick Cavett