Children Quote by James Emery White

“Peer-oriented kids are repelled by similarity to their parents and want to be as different as possible from them. Since sameness means closeness, pursuing…

— Gabor Maté

“Peer-oriented children live in a universe of severely limited and superficial attachments. The quest for sameness being the least vulnerable way of attaching, it…

— Gabor Maté

Kids get influenced by other kids.

— Paul Pierce

“Popularity does not equal respect. It is not only kids who will do what they think they must to fit in and be popular—adults…

— Susan C. Young

Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be.

— Neil Patrick Harris

Parents are much more likely to be attuned to what they don't like than they are to the expectations that the kid is having…

— Ross W. Greene

“When a child becomes so attached to her peers that she would rather be with them and be like them, those peers, whether singly…

— Gabor Maté

Some parents want to be popular, but that's not their job.

— David Sheff

Instead of celebrating what makes each child unique, most parents push their children to "fit in" so that they don't "stick out." This unwittingly…

— Tom Rath

There has never in the history of the civilized world been a cohort of kids that is so little affected by adult guidance and…

— William Damon

The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is a far…

— Steven Pinker

It is rare, I think, for parents to let their children -- of any age -- grow up and become peers.

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot