Children Quote by Michael Sandel

Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.

— John Locke

I think there's been a big psychological shift in people my age raising children. The world that they are growing into requires a different…

— Asher Keddie

Children need directing and teaching what is right in a kind, affectionate manner How often we see parents demand obedience, good behavior, kind words,…

— Brigham Young

The behaviour of the child more often than not comes down to the parenting. And before you ask, no, I didn't get it all…

— Ulrika Jonsson

How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?

— Samuel Butler

I am always suspicious of those who impose 'rules' on child rearing. Every child is different in terms of temperament and learning, and every…

— Siri Hustvedt

I think sometimes bad behaviour can be liberating for certain people. They need to behave badly to find themselves - to go off path…

— Noah Baumbach

“Everybody has it wrong way round. Parents don’t make children—children make parents. They shape our behavior from the first wail. Mold us into what…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Every day, every hour, the parents are either passively or actively forming those habits in their children upon which, more than upon anything else,…

— Charlotte Mason

In terms of parenthood, I think the pressure has amped up massively too. Some parents are setting the bar ludicrously high in terms of…

— Helen Fielding

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a…

— Andre Gide

Especially with our first child, we tend to take too much responsibility--both credit and blame--for everything. The more we wantto be good parents, the…

— Polly Berrien Berends