Children Quote by Iben Dissing Sandahl

“The confidence you instill in children can change the world.”

— Jackie Cantoni

Natural play strengthens children's self-confidence and arouses their senses-their awareness of the world and all that moves in it, seen and unseen.

— Richard Louv

“young children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations ... Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up”

— Ken Robinson

“Children need time to become themselves--through play and social interaction. If you overwhelm a child with stuff--with choices and pseudochoices--before they are ready, they…

— Kim John Payne

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

— Hermann Broch

The shift from the perception of the child as innocent to the perception of the child as competent has greatly increased the demands on…

— David Elkind

“Children enter the world with a great deal of love and trust. They are not yet able to perceive good and bad, but they…

— Rahima Baldwin Dancy

If you watch young children play, you will notice that they create games, characters, situations, whole worlds in which they immerse themselves with intense…

— Daniel Greenberg

Decades of research has shown that play is crucial to physical, intellectual, and social-emotiona l development at all ages. This is especially true of…

— David Elkind

“Children, even when very young, have the capacity for inventive thought and decisive action. They have worthwhile ideas. They make perceptive connections. They’re individuals…

— Lori McWilliam Pickert

“But if you believe that adults can ‘make’ children learn well—in the absence of or in defiance of a child’s inner sense of confident…

— Kirsten Olson