Adulthood Quote by Robin Marantz Henig

Many children grow through adolescence with no ripples whatever and land smoothly and predictably in the adult world with both feet on the ground.…

— Stella Chess

Often, when there is a conflict between parent and child, at its very hub is an expectation that the child should be acting differently.…

— Ellen Galinsky

Some people mature too fast, some too slow. Some never had a childhood, some never grow.

— Anonymous

Kids are different from adults. They are not as developed as far as brain science, controlling impulses, and maturity, and fall prey to all…

— Greg Boyle

Kids are disorganized.

— P. J. O'Rourke

At a stage when young people want more than anything to be like everyone else, they find themselves the least alike. Everyone their age…

— Laurence Steinberg

The children of childish parents age quickly.

— Mason Cooley

One of the many problems with parenting is that kids keep changing. Just when you're used to one stage, they zoom into another.

— Pamela Druckerman

“It almost seems un-American, at times, to have kids who are slow to warm up. Other people tell us to push them—to force them…

— Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

“They also create wormholes in time, transporting their mothers and fathers back to feelings and sensations they haven't had since they themselves were young.…

— Jennifer Senior

Children have an uncanny way of living up - or down - to what is expected of them.

— Ann Landers

Why is youth so short and age so long?

— Ouida