Children Quote by Heidi Murkoff

“The long-term answer to a kid not caring about your concerns is to care more about his.”

— Ross W. Greene

Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.

— Anonymous

“When children feel comfortable asking for help, they know they matter.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

“Children want to feel as though their life matters.”

— Asa Don Brown

“Children have a more restricted and yet a more intense feeling for nature than grown-ups.”

— Hermann Broch

“Children are not meant to work for love. They are meant to rest in someone’s care so that they can play and grow; this…

— Deborah MacNamara

“People who don’t feel cared for are not always comfortable being cared for.”

— Elizabeth Berg

“We ignore the emotional needs of young children at our peril.”

— Bruce D. Perry

“Children do not experience our intentions, no matter how heartfelt. They experience what we manifest in tone and behavior.”

— Gordon Neufeld

“Children often overestimate their importance in the parent's life”

— Altaf Tyrewala

“One effect of peer orientation is that the love and nurturance we have for our children cannot get through.”

— Gabor Maté

“Our children are not happy. I believe this is because over the last half century we have increasingly monitored, supervised and attended to them,…

— Sara Maitland