Child Quote by Urie Bronfenbrenner

In order to develop normally, a child requires progressively more complex joint activity with one or more adults who have an irrational emotional relationship…

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

Parents sometimes forget that after the child emerges from the utter physical and mental helplessness of infancy, it is becoming more and more an…

— Prentice Mulford

When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit.

— Brennan Manning

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

When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of…

— Stephen Covey

Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.

— Niels Bohr

My psycho-analytic work has convinced me that when in the baby's mind the conflicts between love and hate arise, and the fears of losing…

— Melanie Klein

Babies are born whole and then they go through experiences in life that chip away at some of that, and it becomes learned behavior.

— Ari Graynor

When a child enters the world through you, it alters everything on a psychic, psychological and purely practical level.

— Jane Fonda

Having a kid is hard to explain, but when you talk to another parent, you have mutual understanding of what that does to you…

— Will Grier

And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of…

— Sydney J. Harris

“Even without world wars, revolutions and emigration, siblings growing up in the same home almost never share the same environment. More accurately, brothers and…

— Gabor Maté