Accepting Quote by Gene Wolfe

The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.

— Ann Voskamp

“A child must have care and attention, but that care and attention need not emanate from a single, permanently present individual. Children are more…

— Germaine Greer

“High-reactive children pay what one psychologist calls “alert attention” to people and things. They literally use more eye movements than others to compare choices…

— Susan Cain

An observant child should be put in the way of things worth observing.

— Charlotte Mason

Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and…

— Donna Tartt

A misbehaving child, is a discouraged child

— Rudolf Dreikurs

“Children are deeply curious about odd behaviors and seldom offended or worried by them. What a remarkable gift to bestow on another person, it…

— Vivian Gussin Paley

Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.

— John Irving

Children develop character by what they see, by what they hear, and by what they are repeatedly led to do.

— James Stenson

One of the great things about children is that they have no other concern than to be simply interested in things. It is considered…

— John Dickerson

A child is an eager observer and is particularly attracted by the actions of the adults and wants to imitate them. In this regard…

— Maria Montessori

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

— Anna Letitia Barbauld