Quotes About Children

As a rule, young children don't complain of wanting to fingerpaint but finding themselves mysteriously unable to do so.

Children who are accustomed to being treated well internalize that treatment and have a permanent sense of well-being. But children whose every need is instantly gratified and who are constantly praised to the skies do not have the same sense of well-being; rather they may feel despair or rage when that gratification is withheld, or when everyone doesn't glorify them in the same way.

Little children require their parent's unqualified love in order to survive and feel secure. Very soon, however, they need a tempered version of that devotion- parents who can give them the freedom to fail or feel sorrow or taste frustration, to fully experience their own pain and pleasure and learn from them. Therapists call this phenomenon "ownership.

If unloving mothers were able to see their behavious as abusive, they either would stop behaving that way or they would get help for their dysfunction. But many cannot: instead, they deny it, to themselves, their families, and the world at large, in order to avoid a sense of guilt, to avoid having to make changes in their lives, or to avoid the bruising awareness that they, too, were unloved children.

If a mother has an unhealthy need to dominate her children-which she demonstrates by bullying, terrifying, neglecting, suffocating, indulging, humiliating, overprotecting or abusing them- those children must come to the recognition that such treatment is wrong in order to begin the long process of recovery and ultimate understanding.

I admit to not being an aficionado of children, having been one and having found my cohort and myself generally despicable. Unlike many, I was not intent on reproducing myself, deliberately or accidentally, since one of myself was more than enough for me to handle.

My bus carried at least a few soldiers in civilian disguise, although the rest of the General's in-laws and cousins were mostly women and children. These passengers murmured among themselves, complaining of this or that, which I ignored. Even if they found themselves in Heaven, our countrymen would find occasion to remark that it was not as warm as Hell.

Crianças precisam de orientação e roteiros morais, beneficiando-se imensamente com o exemplo de adultos que falam a verdade e agem com força moral.

Always listen closely to what children have to say, because really we learn more from them each day.

Children are like the rain, we shouldn't be angry with them because they just don't know how to fall upwards.

Love your children more than money because you can laugh happily with them, but not with money.

Something you are doing everyday is what your children will remember the rest of their lives.

Time may be money, but the best thing parents can spend on their children is not money, but time.

You can't raise your child probably if you don't sometimes raise your voice.

I believe our children, unknowingly and with innocent trickery, teach us the deeper knowledge of how to be a true human being

All human beings are creatures of God, but not all are his children – non-Christians are children of the devil (John 8:44).

What was the funniest thing you ever saw your children do?

Because I don't think I have a handle on how to write for grown-ups. The grown-up publishing world is so fraught with one-upsmanship, scorn and snobbery. I did write an adult novel. Thank goodness it went out of print. I think we kids' authors still start out with hope every morning. We honor our audience.

The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and a healthy diet.

Los niños necesitan que sus padres sean sus amigos tanto como un balazo.

Modul în care adul?ii î?i folosesc puterea sau influen?a depinde în mare m?sur? de ceea ce au înv??at în familie, pe când erau copii.

Children are deeply curious about odd behaviors and seldom offended or worried by them. What a remarkable gift to bestow on another person, it occurs to me, and so difficult for adults to accomplish.

The meaning of our whole life and existence is love. It is love to the family, to the children, to the motherland (the world). This phenomenon which appears complicated lies at heart of any of our behaviors. It is exactly the top priority which all of us should go after, and I am absolutely sure that we will succeed.

It is the city that is wrong, and its creations can never be right; they may be improved; they can never be what they should.... Until the whole atrocious system of herding working people in close-built cities, by way of making them serviceable cogwheels in the capitalistic machine for grinding out rent and profit, comes to an end, the physical education of children will remain at best a pathetic compromise.