Quotes About Children

I am not close minded at all to having more children.

Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught.

I'm of the mindset that most people who have kids are, which is, 'Hey, I want another me. I like me. I'm pretty cool, and I've got really great ideas, and the way I think is the right way to think. Let's put another one of me out there.' So I'll have kids one day.

The mindset in India is to get an education that will secure a job, and then think about how to get a particular salary. We're used to that kind of a life, and that's how we bring up our children.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

I've done everything imaginable as a mother and a coal miner's daughter to create a brighter future for our children, and it fell on deaf ears.

We have created a ministry of the family to work on fertility, nurseries, on a fiscal system which takes large families into account.

My children were attacked by the Minnesota media when I was governor.

Every minute you invest in kids you get back four times over.

The most precious inheritance parents can leave their children is their own happiness. Parents' happiness is the most valuable gift they can give their children. Your children can use those lessons the whole of their lives. You may not be able to leave them money, houses, and land, but you can help them be happy people. If we have happy parents, we have received the richest inheritance of all.

No sólo los niños deben ser protegidos de películas, programas televisivos, libros, revistas y juegos violentos insanos, sino que nosotros podemos también ser destruidos por los medios de comunicación.

The most precious inheritance parents can leave their children is their own happiness. Parents' happiness is the most valuable gift they can give their children

Children exposed to early violence display altered responses to confrontation and conflict; in essence they are 'hard-wired' to be anxious, distractible, highly aroused, and impulsively aggressive in situations of conflict.

Ana baba, bizzat kendileri olan felaketi çocuklar?nda sürdürdüklerini çok iyi bilirler çocuk yapmay? ve onlar? yaÅŸam makinesinin içine atmay? haince sürdürürler.

the holiest parent begets unholy children, and cannot communicate their grace to them, as they do their nature; which many godly parents find true, in their sad experience.

Heliogabalus loved his children the better for resembling him in sin. But Christ loves his children the more for resembling him in sanctity. I have read of some springs that change the colour of the cattle that drink of them into the colour of their own waters, as Du Bartas sings: Cerona, Xanth, and Cephisus do make The thirsty flocks, that of their waters take, Black, red, and white; and near the crimson deep, The Arabian fountain maketh crimson sheep.

Make sure your children live longer than you do. Do that and you've really done something, okay? The rest is filler

The lingering effects of war can inspire callousness even after the guns have fallen silent. Many of us have seen the notorious clip from 60 Minutes in which Madeleine Albright, then U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and soon to be U.S. Secretary of State, declared that the price of half a million dead children as a result of the sanctions against Iraq during the 1990s had been "worth it.

Parents can raise children who are responsible, self-disciplined, and cooperative without relying on the weapon of fear; they can learn how to influence children to behave out of genuine consideration for the needs of parents rather than out of fear of punishment or withdrawal of privileges.

Readers who have owned animals will appreciate how difficult it would be to train a dog to play exclusively in his own yard, to fetch his sweater whenever he sees it is raining outside, or to be generous in sharing his dog biscuits with other dogs. Yet these same people would not even question the feasibility of trying to use reward and punishment to teach their children the same behaviors.

Parents who satisfy their own needs through independent productive effort not only accept themselves but also needn't seek gratification of their needs from the way their children behave. They don't need their children to turn out in a particular way. People with high self-esteem, resting on a firm foundation of their own independent achievement, are more accepting of their children and the way they behave.

If a parent has no other source of self-worth and self-esteem, which is unhappily true of many parents whose lives are limited to raising "good" children, the stage is set for a dependency on children that makes the parent overanxious and severely needful that the children behave in particular ways.

The lesson for parents is that they can be helpful consultants to their children—they can share their ideas, experience, wisdom—if they remember to act like an effective consultant so they do not get fired by the clients whom they wish to help.

Parents who want children to value nonviolence in human relations will seem like hypocrites when they use physical punishment to "discipline." I recall a poignant cartoon depicting a father spanking his son over his knee, shouting, "I hope this teaches you not to go around hitting your baby brother!