Capable Quote by Kim Brooks Download Open image “We're really doing children a disservice when we underestimate what they're capable of.” — Kim Brooks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capable Children Doing Underestimate
We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them. — Jess Lair Copy Share Image
“Our children cannot be assumed to follow in our footsteps, assuage our losses, or compensate for our inadequacies.” — Madeline Levine Copy Share Image
We all want our children to be terrific, but you can't force a child into being what you want it to be. — Dean Devlin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following ourown reasoning,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Children have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with the kind of respect we are so confident it ought to be… — Conrad Hyers Copy Share Image
There are so many unwanted children on this earth and its our job to take care of them. And if we don't, we're doing… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
I would say that kids are great in many ways, because I think that we are less hampered when it comes to 'this costs… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
Perhaps we have been misguided into taking too much responsibility from our children, leaving them too little room for discovery — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort. — Naomi Campbell Copy Share Image
I really feel strongly that we don't need to dumb things down for children. — Jessie Mueller Copy Share Image
I allow myself to feel fear without always capitulating to it... You don't have to live your life by fear. — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
When I first learned I was pregnant with my son, I had only two firm convictions about parenting: I knew it was important, and… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
“That’s why I hadn’t talked to you for a while. But man, did I miss hearing your sweet voice.” Sandy was surprised. Mark was… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
The desire to keep television out of our son's life was one of the few parenting priorities my husband and I agreed on from… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
When I earned my diploma from the University of Virginia in the spring of 2000, it never occurred to me before my senior year… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
It shouldn't be normal to be anxious all the time about your children, so women should seek mental health help if they're having excessive… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
I think that the expectation on parents has changed from giving your children shelter and love and support and guidance to this idea that… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I'd longed to get my driver's license so I could get away from my parents. Then I'd longed to go to… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies.… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
When you lived it for years and years and years and seen different characters just get pummeled and squashed because 'I said so,' it… — Arn Anderson Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I was terrible student. I was capable, but I never like being told what to do, so I was always in the bottom class… — Chris Lilley Copy Share Image
Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
[The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it… — Theodore Guerin Copy Share Image
The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I'm attracted to the garden, without a doubt, but I always try and image the wolf that's there, too. And that wolf would be… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
A man, as a man, could arrive at all the dignity that a man was capable of obtaining or receiving; but it needed a… — John Taylor Copy Share Image