Affluence Quote by Judith Crist

“Instead of opportunities for serious accomplishment in our culture, we supply our children with expensive toys, hoping that these will occupy them and keep…

— Paula Polk Lillard

Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as…

— Charles de Lint

“It is easy to blame television or the movies or rap music for desensitizing our children to human suffering, to violence, and even to…

— Gabor Maté

Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way.

— Jane Fonda

Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in an excessive…

— Pope John Paul II

I'm also looking for the psychological elements that fuel commodity culture. For example, if we imbue girls with deep insecurity about their bodies through…

— Lauren Greenfield

We know – it has been measured in many experiments – that children with strong impulse control grow to be better adjusted, more dependable,…

— Jonathan Sacks

“Parents should also question much of the contemporary emphasis on special materials and equipment for learning in a child's environment. A clutter of toys…

— Raymond S. Moore

What is most disturbing today is that we use rational methods to cultivate the tastes and values of the young in all kinds of…

— Jack Zipes

“Give ten children a toy box, and watch them select ten different toys, regardless of gender or religion or parental expectations. Children have preferences…

— Seanan McGuire

Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.

— Melinda Gates

The only thing of value we can give kids is what we are, not what we have.

— Leo Buscaglia