Achievement Quote by Steven Pinker

The children of less effective, less competent parents will be more likely to adopt the customs and values of the peer group.

— Caterina Fake

Kids get influenced by other kids.

— Paul Pierce

“Peer-oriented kids are repelled by similarity to their parents and want to be as different as possible from them. Since sameness means closeness, pursuing…

— Gabor Maté

There has never in the history of the civilized world been a cohort of kids that is so little affected by adult guidance and…

— William Damon

Many more children observe attitudes, values and ways different from or in conflict with those of their families, social networks,and institutions. Yet today's young…

— James P. Comer

A new world of complex relationships and feelings opens up when the peer group takes its place alongside the family as the emotional focus…

— Stanley Greenspan

“Just as an adult-oriented child is more vulnerable in relationship to his parents and teachers, peer-oriented kids are more so in relationship to one…

— Gabor Maté

Children trust and rely on Us to create their FOUNDATION, their Belief System. It will impact their every decisions into adulthood, into their future,…

— Rey Mellomida

Children need to see that they are assumed to be well-intentioned, naturally social people who are trying to do the right thing and who…

— Jean Liedloff

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A…

— John Bradshaw

Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.

— Sugata Mitra

It's important for survival that children have their own experiences, the kind they learn from. The kind their parents arrange for are not as…

— Garrison Keillor