Children Quote by Jon Elster

“I suspect that children want their parents to be busy; they don't want to have to fill your schedule with their paltry needs. Children…

— Lionel Shriver

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

— Gordon Neufeld

“So many choices and so much stimuli rob them of time and attention. Too much stuff deprives kids of leisure, and the ability to…

— Lisa M. Ross

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

— Asa Don Brown

“Do not force your children to behave like you, for surely they have been created for a time which is different to your time”

— Ali ibn-e-Abu Talib

“We adults are angered by the senseless things that happen every day in this world. However, at the same time we repress those feelings…

— Hiromu Arakawa

Although we like to think of young children's lives as free of troubles, they are in fact filled with disappointment and frustration. Children wish…

— Bruno Bettelheim

“We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example…

— Brigham Young

The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.

— Louisa May Alcott

You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment - their greatest object being to do…

— Queen Victoria

“As children, because of our dependency, we experience a sense of being powerless in a world of powerful people. If our home environments are…

— Susan Forward

“They are not born reasonable and unselfish; they are born unreasonable and selfish. They want what they want when they want it, and they…

— Thomas W. Phelan