Quotes About Children

We must not take from our children—or ourselves—the truth that is in the world of the imagination.

It's not right in the United States of America that a little kid shouldn't be safe in school.

If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children does not interest me, a grownup, then I am dishonoring the children for whom the book is intended, and I am dishonoring books. And words.

The purpose of the story or music or painting, is to further the coming of the kingdom, to make us aware of our status as children of God, and to turn our feet towards home.

If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in a book for children.

Your father needs help, he needs courage, and for his children he may be able to do what he cannot do for himself.

Most parents probably deserve to be punished for one reason or another. Mostly their children don't act on it.

Eve showed Aidan how to rake the range. "I think when we're married we might have something more modern," he grumbled. "No, surely with the eight children we can have them stoking it, going up the chimney even.

What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its money than of those who handle its children?

For younger kids, repetition is really valuable. They demand it. When they see a show over and over again, they not only are understanding it better, which is a form of power, but just by predicting what is going to happen, I think they feel a real sense of affirmation and self-worth.

The poorer children were, to her mind, often better behaved, less whiny, more creative in making use of their own time, and have a well-developed sense of independence.

Of course, kids don't always like repetition. Whatever they are watching has to be complex enough to allow, upon repeated exposure, for deeper and deeper levels of comprehension. At the same time, it can't be so complex that the first time around it baffles the children and turns them off.

In the past generation, the American educational system has decided not to seek the very best teachers, give them lots of kids to teach, and pay them more—which would help children the most. It has decided to hire every teacher it can get its hands on and pay them less.

Having a parent incarcerated increases a child's chances of juvenile delinquency between 300 and 400 percent; it increases the odds of a serious psychiatric disorder by 250 percent.

The much-storied disenchantment with mathematics among Western children starts in the third and fourth grades, and Fuson argues that perhaps a part of that disenchantment is due to the fact that math doesn't seem to make sense; its linguistic structure is clumsy; its basic rules seem arbitrary and complicated.

But is the commercial theory of learning true? Daniel Anderson says that new research suggests that children actually don't like commercials as much as we thought they did because commercials don't tell stories, and stories have a particular salience and importance to young people.

Small children tend to be neophobic: once they hit two or three, they shrink from new tastes. That makes sense, evolutionarily, because through much of human history that is the age at which children would have first begun to gather and forage for themselves, and those who strayed from what was known and trusted would never have survived.

Y?l?n baÅŸlar?nda doÄŸmuÅŸ bir çocuÄŸun sonlar?nda doÄŸmuÅŸ bir çocuÄŸun kar??s?nda baÅŸlang?çta sahip olduÄŸu küçük avantaj devam ediyor. Bu da çocuklar? y?llarca uzay?p giden baÅŸar? ve baÅŸar?s?zl?k, teÅŸvik etme ve cesaret k?rma modelleri içine hapsediyor.

Los niños no ven la tele cuando reciben de ella el estímulo necesario ni apartan la vista cuando sienten que les aburre, sino que la ven cuando pueden comprender y dejan de hacerlo cuando les confunde.

Le gusta este jardín, que es suyo? ¡Evite que sus hijos lo destruyan!

The future success of a nation depends on how diligently and purposefully they educate their children.

The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his children. But as for a life well lived, no other monument is necessary.

A successful father is not more successful than his children.

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.