Children Quote by E. M. Delafield

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it

— Mignon McLaughlin

“As parents, we sometimes mistakenly assume that things were always this way. They weren't. The modern family is just that - modern - and…

— Jennifer Senior

“So where will the children of the future come from? Increasingly they will come from people who are at odds with the modern world.…

— Philip Longman

Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives.

— Penelope Leach

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

— Neil Postman

Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.

— L. Frank Baum

Modernity consists in a revolt against the prevailing style, an unyielding rage against the official order.

— Irving Howe

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.

— Clint Eastwood

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.…

— Anonymous

What I do feel the modern child lacks, when compared with the earlier generation, is concentration, and the sheer dogged grit to carry a…

— Miss Read

In every new generation, the impulses supposed to have been rooted out by discipline in the child break forth again when the struggle for…

— Ellen Key

My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer;…

— Shia LaBeouf