Children Quote by Jennifer Senior

“Yet when adults lose the four distinguishing features of adolescence, when they stop cultivating the power of novelty seeking, social engagement, emotional intensity, and…

— Daniel J. Siegel

“the awkwardness of adolescence still clinging to them.”

— Tim Kreider

“And accordingly, the adolescent sensibility is one that prevails in much of the art world, where the most adolescent of goals, transgression, is still…

— Theodore Dalrymple

“No matter what the cause, the result is the same: iGen teens are less likely to experience the freedom of being out of the…

— Jean M. Twenge

“Parents are a role model for their youngsters and how they act with these small ones or in front of them can be grasped…

— Patricia Dsouza

“Adolescence is nothing if not a working model of peer influence in its purest form.”

— David DiSalvo

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

— Altaf Tyrewala

“Young children cannot possibly understand the motives of adults. It means little to a young child that the parent feels love for him if…

— Gabor Maté

“It's easier for parents to ignore, to pretend that everything's great and then do whatever they want while convinced it's something you want, too.”

— Sophie Jordan

“Modern parents can take comfort from the fact that most of our teenagers come through adolescence, too—perhaps a little bruised, maybe a little humiliated,…

— Barbara Natterson-Horowitz

“Once a child enters adolescence, it may become increasingly difficult to raise these issues. Because adolescence is a time of rebellion—of self-definition, of distinguishing…

— Jonathan Berent

“It’s the parents who respond to their children’s setbacks with interest and treat them as opportunities for learning who are transmitting a growth mindset…

— Carol S. Dweck