Children Quote by Dirk Benedict

“Some children are threatened with loss of privileges such as money, cell phones, cars or even eviction from home if they do not 'toe-the-line'…

— Christina Engela

Parents' ability to survive a child's unabating needs, wants, and demands...varies enormously. Some people can give and give…Whether children are good or bad, brilliant…

— Stella Chess

Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.

— Lucille Ball

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

Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive…

— Delia Ephron

“Family-centered parents do not have the emotional freedom, the power, to raise their children with their ultimate welfare truly in mind. If they derive…

— Stephen R. Covey

“Often children who survive extremely adverse childhoods have learned a particular survival strategy. I call it ‘strategic detachment.’ This is not the withdrawal from…

— Nathaniel Branden

I think there's been a big psychological shift in people my age raising children. The world that they are growing into requires a different…

— Asher Keddie

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit…

— Samuel Richardson

“Children who are neglected by their parents—despite their parents’ best intentions—grow up to feel insignificant, insecure, unloved and—more than anything else—angry. To make children…

— Shmuel Boteach

The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.

— Kate Thompson

Wayward, disobedient children cause their parents grief and anxiety.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin