Calm Quote by Jerry Seinfeld

“Ultimately we want the children to catch their growing intensity themselves, to rely on their inner control rather than our control. By giving them…

— Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

“Children remember staying up late. Grownups think about getting up early”

— Robert Goolrick

“That’s what parents often do, I think, we persuade ourselves we’re doing everything for the sake of the child. It’s too painful to us…

— Fredrik Backman

If you want to know why some kids can wait and others can’t, then you’ve got to think like they think,

— Walter Mischel

“Children don't wait for you to spend time with them. They grow up with or without you.”

— Sharon Randall

Parents spend the first part of our lives teaching us to talk and walk and the rest telling us to shut up and sit…

— Emily

Children say 'I want to grow up faster'. Adults say 'Oh how I wish I was young again'. The heck?

— Anonymous

“When you're a kid, you don't get to do anything. When you're a grown-up, you don't want to do anything.”

— Tony Taylor

“Parents don't now what we are going through, they always say they do but they really don't now what there talking about. We will…

— Sarah Weidener

“Just like this, the kids we raised slowly start growing up and away from us. We have to gradually let go of their hands…

— Keiko Tobe

The hardest part of growing up is learning how to wait

— Leo Rosten

Some parents really bring their children up; others let them down.

— Anonymous