Children Quote by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“Good explanations enable children to develop a code of ethics that often coincides with societal expectations; when they don’t square up, children rely on…

— Adam M. Grant

“Don’t say bad words; don’t interrupt people; don’t shove; don’t steal; don’t lie. To the child, all these prohibitions appear identical (“It’s not nice”).…

— Andre Compte-Sponville

“a good deal of unkindness and selfishness on the part of parents towards children is not generally followed by ill consequences to the parents…

— Samuel Butler

“If you cannot or will not imagine the results of your actions, there’s no way you can act morally or responsibly. Little kids can’t…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Reasoning does create a paradox: it leads both to more rule following and more rebelliousness. By explaining moral principles, parents encourage their children to…

— Adam Grant

sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.

— Maria Edgeworth

“The verbal patterns and the patterns of behavior we present to children in these lighthearted confections are likely to influence them for the rest…

— Esphyr Slobodkina

Since civilizing children takes the better part of two decades--some twenty years of nonstop thinking, nurturing, teaching, coaxing, rewarding, forgiving, warning, punishing, sympathizing, apologizing,…

— Mary Blakely

“Children enter the world with a great deal of love and trust. They are not yet able to perceive good and bad, but they…

— Rahima Baldwin Dancy

We tell children their wellbeing is paramount, but we are also guilty of mollycoddling them. There's a constant emphasis on their vulnerability, which is…

— Claire Fox

What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are constantly trying to give their children…

— Anonymous

“One cannot always know what children are thinking. Children are hard to understand, especially when careful training has accustomed them to obedience, and experience…

— Catherine the Great