Children Quote by Siri Hustvedt

“Do you know the greatest gift a parent can give to a child?” she asked, looking around the room. No one answered. “Independence. To…

— Michael Scott

“What's critical is that parents convey to their children that by allowing them more independence, you are not in any way pulling back on…

— Melissa Shultz

“What to us looks like independence is really just dependence transferred. We are in such a hurry for our children to be able to…

— Gordon Neufeld

“When your children are very young it is impossible to imagine a life where they will not live with you, where you will not…

— Maureen Wheeler

The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.

— Maria Montessori

INDEPENDENT: How we want our children to be as long as they do everything we say.

— Nikhil Saluja

“It was my wish that our sons should cultivate a habit of bold independence, for I well knew that it might easily be the…

— Jean Rudolph Wyss

“Children are motivated to stay close to their parents, whom they perceive as a safe haven. And children are motivated to explore the world…

— Leslie Becker-Phelps

“True independence is not based on fear. It contains within it an ability to be close to others, coupled with a choice to be…

— Gay Hendricks

“The goal of independence starts at birth and mothers who want to stay with their infants most of the time are viewed as ‘possessive’…

— Gabrielle Palmer

The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. Adults work to finish a task, but the child works…

— Maria Montessori

“I cherished her individuality, that spark of independence no child should lose to life's restrictions and parameters.”

— Truddi Chase