Children Quote by James Howe

Sometimes kids just act impulsively, but it's because we have strong feelings, not because we're trying to make trouble.

— James Howe

“The more you try to push a child's unhappy feelings away, the more he becomes stuck in them. The more comfortable you can accept…

— Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

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

— Gordon Neufeld

“When a child receives the message, even subtly or indirectly, that his emotions don't matter, he will grow up feeling, somewhere deep inside, that…

— Jonice Webb

“pretend to feel emotions that they don’t actually feel, as well as pretend they don’t feel ones that they actually do. They often believe…

— Emily Parker

“Children just feel emotions and their reasoning mind doesn’t interpret or question them. This is why children accept certain people and reject other people.”

— Miguel Ruiz

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

— Bruce D. Perry

“Your child acts this way because she doesn’t know how else to handle her difficult thoughts and feelings.”

— Jeffrey Bernstein

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

— Asa Don Brown

“People don’t necessarily realize it when they contribute to the erosion of a child’s self-worth, but kids pay attention to how people treat them,…

— D.K. Sanz

Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

— Hector Hugh Munro

“Children do not dwell on the ordinary harshness of life, even as they suffer through it.”

— Vahan Zanoyan