Child Quote by Laura Riding

A child should be a child for as long as possible.

— Angad Bedi

If we can find a principle to guide us in the handling of the child between nine and eighteen months, we can see that…

— Selma Fraiberg

What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character.

— Martin Seligman

Never miss an opportunity to allow a child to do something she can and wants to on her own. Sometimes we're in too much…

— Polly Berrien Berends

It’s an amazing bond with your child. Some cultures do it up to five years, normally. I thought, 'Well, I’ll just do it as…

— Kelly Rutherford

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

— Anonymous

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does

— Anonymous

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

— Anonymous

You develop a sensibility when you're a young child. Some people say your personality is formed in the first three, four years of your…

— Joe Frank

The child’s progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him.

— Maria Montessori

When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.

— C. Everett Koop

I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child's life when parents must be absolutely and completely present.

— Dirk Benedict