Quotes About Children

Even the most assiduous of parents cannot fully protect their children, even if they lock them in the basement, safely away from drugs, alcohol and internet porn. In that extreme case, the too-cautious, too-caring parent merely substitutes him or herself for the other terrible problems of life. This is the great Freudian Oedipal nightmare. It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.

Children can be damaged as much or more by a lack of incisive attention as they are by abuse, mental or physical. This is damage by omission, rather than commission, but it is no less severe and long-lasting.

The neglect and mistreatment that is part and parcel of poorly structured or even entirely absent disciplinary approaches can be deliberate—motivated by explicit, conscious (if misguided) parental motives. But more often than not, modern parents are simply paralyzed by the fear that they will no longer be liked or even loved by their children

But more often than not, modern parents are simply paralyzed by the fear that they will no longer be liked or even loved by their children if they chastise them for any reason. They want their children's friendship above all, and are willing to sacrifice respect to get it. This is not good. A child will have many friends, but only two parents—if that—and parents are more, not less, than friends.

Ne dopuštajte svojoj djeci da rade bilo što zbog ?ega vam se ne?e svi?ati.

You can discipline your children, or you can turn that responsibility over to the harsh, uncaring judgmental world—and the motivation for the latter decision should never be confused with love.

En términos estadísticos, los niños de dos años son las personas más violentas que existen.

The sexual abuse of children is distressingly common.156 However, it's not as common as poorly trained psychotherapists think, and it also does not always produce terribly damaged adults.157 People vary in their resilience. An event that will wipe one person out can be shrugged off by another. But therapists with a little second-hand knowledge of Freud often axiomatically assume that a distressed adult in their practice must have been subject to childhood sexual abuse.

What do you call a planet where bad guys stroll through life with success draped around their shoulders like a King's cloak, while random horrors are visited upon the innocent heads of children? I call it Earth.

Lo único que sabía, por instinto, era que los más pequeños rezumaban egoísmo. Formaba parte de su propia inocencia. Egoísmo por precaución, por supervivencia, por necesidad.

Convertida la educación en aprendizaje social, la escuela podrá anticipar a los niños lo que éstos devolverán a la sociedad cuando sean hombres. El alimento, el vestido, el juguete, el libro, la herramienta, deben ser dados gratuitamente, para educar al niño en una atmósfera de solidaridad y de confianza, para enseñarle que todos los padres trabajan para todos los hijos.

In learning to learn again, we can learn of this wisdom and allow our children (and so ourselves) to become the free, whole individuals this good earth has prepared us to be.

Some establishments simply adore to be utterly overwhelmed by all the joy of gay and babbling children. These are called Italian restaurants.

Any government that allow schoolchildren to be murdered even once has to be thought of as flawed, but a government that repeatedly lets its children, and other innocents, be killed has to be considered a failure. As the head of such a government, responsibility for that failure begins, but doesn't end, with me.

Have you children, Mr Brandstetter?" He shook his head. "I was one once. Does it help?

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.

THE rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in the education of their children, regardless of the cost but it is not so with him whose Subsistence is derived from industry.

The hardest lesson I've learned as a mother is that you can't control what happens to your kits," she told the younger cat. "All you can do is love them, and guide them, and try to do what you think is right for them when you can. That's what you're doing. You're a good mother.

Bumblekit, Briarkit, and Blossomkit," Graystripe murmured. "Welcome to ThunderClan, my precious children.

I wanted to go to a place where you were important and people listened to what you had to say. Mothering hadn't done that ... and yet ... wouldn't it be ironic if my turf yielded the most important commodity being grown today? A family? A crop of children, seeded by two people, nourished by love, watered by tears, and in eighteen or twenty years harvested into worthwhile human beings to go through the process again.

Children should be judged on what they are -- a punishment for an early marriage.

Never have more children than you have car windows.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.