Children Quote by Laurence Steinberg

“Parental criticism is unhelpful. It creates anger and resentment. Even worse, children who are regularly criticized learn to condemn themselves and others. They learn…

— Haim G. Ginott

“The upbringing based on criticizing the wrong and rejecting it since childhood is considered to be one of the factors that support the ability…

— Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem. It is heartbreaking how criticism can wound children and diminish their self-esteem.

— H. Burke Peterson

If someone criticizes my child it's gonna hurt me a little bit, but it's my child, you know, and I love it regardless.

— Dan Fogelberg

It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticize you. It's the worst review of…

— Tea Leoni

But I think that parents who criticise their children too much are in fact better than parents who praise their children too much.

— Arne Jacobsen

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to…

— Anonymous

When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.

— Bill Crawford

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom…

— Richard Branson

One of the reasons we judge each other so harshly in this world of parenting is because... we perceive anyone else who's doing anything…

— Brené Brown

Wise parents offer criticism only when asked, and then minimally.

— Leonard Roy Frank

“Is constructive criticism really constructive? Not really. You can't make a child better by pointing out what you think is wrong with him or…

— H. Norman Wright