Children Quote by Suzanne Woods Fisher

“We sometimes think we are helping kids by pushing them to perform or learn faster, but leading them in the right moment of their…

— Iben Dissing Sandahl

The best things take effort. With all our talk about God given gifts, weve convinced kids that if youre good at something, it must…

— ANNA QUINDLEN Novelist In O The Oprah Magazine

Children learn eagerly and well when they have need of the knowledge.

— Caroline Pratt

“As Denise Pope outlined in “Doing School,” kids today have tremendous pressure to simply get the work done—to “do school”—rather than to learn. They…

— Julie Lythcott-Haims

“Learn to do everything with speed to be efficient and effective”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly--until you can learn to do it well.”

— Zig Ziglar

Emphasizing effort gives a child a variable that they can control. They come to see themselves as in control of their success. Emphasizing natural…

— Carol S. Dweck

“On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgement and effort to get things done, hurry and impatience are…

— Ann Voskamp

“Much of life, fatherhood included, is the story of knowledge acquired too late: if only I’d known then what I know now, how much…

— Ben Fountain

“Learn the difference between busyness and accomplishments.”

— John Kim

When learning is recognized in the fabric of life and encouraged, when families make their decisions based on what leads to more interesting and…

— Sandra Dodd

“My own experience has been that there is no field where one who is in earnest about learning to do good work can make…

— Dorothea Brande