Box Quote by Dee Rees

There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, to look back to when we were children.

— Cesare Pavese

I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not going to raise a child…

— Clay Aiken

I don't want my kids to have to walk through a world where they have to constantly explain who they are and who their…

— Jacqueline Woodson

“An admirable quality of parenthood is the ability to respect your kid’s privacy.”

— Susane Colasanti

They're [children] less forgiving. You have to be very conscious of the fact that they're not going to just accept things; they're going to…

— Linda Woolverton

It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right.

— Bible

Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be.

— Neil Patrick Harris

I always tell the parents, 'You don't have to approve of your children; you just have to accept them for who they are.'

— Michelle Visage

“It’s hard for a parent to accept that you can’t protect your child from everything.’ ‘It’s hard for a child to accept it too,”

— Fredrik Backman

“Only children simply accept the fact that their parents have the right to make choices for them. Even disobedient children never question the fact…

— The Mirror of Maybe

I'd like to see people worry less about their inner child and more about their outer adult.

— Ron Bennington