Children Quote by George Sand

“With the child already shame-based, the feeling of discouragement takes over the whole personality. As the shame-based child forms her primitive conscience, shame becomes…

— John Bradshaw

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk…

— Ellen Key

If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the…

— Immanuel Kant

With respect to the development of powers devoted to coping with specific scientific and economic problems we may say that the child should be…

— John Dewey

Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.

— Haim Ginott

From the moral as from the intellectual point of view, the child is born neither good nor bad but master of his destiny.

— Jean Piaget

There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays…

— Sigmund Freud

“Only a child expects life to be just; it's a man's part to stand by the consequences of his deeds.”

— Mary Stewart

I have a theory that no child ever does outgrow its ungratified legitimate desires; though subsequent maturity may bring him to the point where…

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

“Genuine love for a child, it seems to me, must include a desire for his maturity and ultimately his independence. WAtching a personality unfold…

— Sydney J. Harris

Any child who is self-sufficient, who can tie his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement the image…

— Maria Montessori

The child begins life as a pleasure-seeking animal; his infantile personality is organized around his own appetites and his own body. In the course…

— Selma Fraiberg