Abuse Quote by Patricia Dsouza

“Children just feel emotions and their reasoning mind doesn’t interpret or question them. This is why children accept certain people and reject other people.”

— Miguel Ruiz

“The dominant view was that children were essentially defective adults. They were defined by the things they didn’t know and couldn’t do.”

— Alison Gopnik

Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express…

— Charlotte Bronte

“children cannot reason abstractly until age 11 at the earliest Standard”

— Terry Marselle

“Children may not understand all that's happening below the surface of a story. It doesn't matter. Because even though they may not be able…

— Lloyd Alexander

“Yet somehow mothers and fathers believe that if only they could convey the logic of their decisions, their young children would understand it. That’s…

— Jennifer Senior

“Kids don’t have any sense.”

— Gwen E Campbell

“A parent is inexcusable who does not personally teach her child to think.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Children sometimes understand things that most grown-ups do not see.

— Jonathan Kozol

“One cannot always know what children are thinking. Children are hard to understand, especially when careful training has accustomed them to obedience, and experience…

— Catherine the Great

“Parents can project into the future; their young children, anchored in the present, have a much harder time of it. This difference can be…

— Jennifer Senior

There are some things children cannot know, because once they learn them they are no longer children.

— Ashleigh Brilliant