Adults Quote by Julia Lathrop

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“Can forgivenes for the crimes done to a child be not just ineffective but actively harmful? It certainly can because the body does not…

— Alice Miller

A child whose life is full of the threat and fear of punishment is locked into babyhood. There is no way for him to…

— John Holt

Experts say that children are not born criminals, nor pampered parasites. They are made that way by the environment in which they live.

— J. Edgar Hoover

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are…

— Anonymous

No parents will in that future time have the right to burden society with a malformed or mentally incompetent child.

— H. Bentley Glass

No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead.

— Maria Montessori

It is every parent's nightmare when a child is in trouble with the law. As a parent, you can do your best to guide…

— Jesse White

It is sometimes difficult to punish a child for doing the wrong thing knowing that from his own point of view,he was doing the…

— Terry Mark

Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.

— Plutarch

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they…

— Philip Larkin

There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be…

— Maria Callas