Children Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“Children need time to become themselves--through play and social interaction. If you overwhelm a child with stuff--with choices and pseudochoices--before they are ready, they…

— Kim John Payne

Children basically need one thing: to be played with.

— Ben Miller

Having a child is all-consuming; so is doing a play.

— Marianne Elliott

“As parents we have a tendency to overprotect; it's okay to try and show them all positives but we cannot forget that the real…

— Johnnie Dent Jr

“Let your child see you doing a good deed instead of you telling him or her to do it, and the little child shall…

— Abhijit Naskar

When given age-appropriate challenges, children tend to take them very seriously; in fact, the more obvious the risk is, the more cautiously a child…

— Darell Hammond

“Even so those who teach little children too often have the idea that they are educating babies and seek to place themselves on the…

— Maria Montessori

You need to prepare the child you have for the world that exists.

— Hanna Rosin

“A child has no great wish to perfect himself in the use of an instrument of torture, but make it a means to his…

— Daniel Pennac

It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them…

— Bob Keeshan

One of the most essential and mundane of human activities - taking care of children - requires high levels of anxious vigilance. ... [Parents]…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Kids delight in 'magical thinking', whether in the form of the Tooth Fairy or the saints: whether you see these as comforting lies or…

— Emma Donoghue