Quotes About Children

Everybody wants to do whatever they can go give their kids an edge, even if it is ridiculous.

It is so hard for a queer person to become an adult. Deprived of the markers of life's passage, they lolled about in a neverland dreamworld. They didn't get married. They didn't have children. They didn't buy homes or have job-jobs. The best that could be aimed for was an academic placement and a lover who eventually tired of pansexual sport-fucking and settled down with you to raise a rescue animal in a rent-controlled apartment.

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.

The best way of preventing a person from becoming a serial killer is for the trained professionals in the social services, and even for concerned members of the public, to learn to identify the little dreamers who flee into their fantasy worlds to escape abuse and to refer these children for therapy.

Children often give clues that they are disturbed in their play and in their art. Therapists should explore the sexual and aggressive fantasies of children and should not be so naïve as to think that children as young as five do not have the capacity to fantasise about raping and mutilating their mothers. They do, believe me.

Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.

Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.

If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.

Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children.

Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.

Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.

The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.

Los niños lo comprenden todo; más que nosotros. Y no olvidan nada. Y si ahora no lo comprenden, lo comprenderán mañana.

Pero existen, flotando constantemente en el aire unos entes diabólicos que gozan enredando los actos inocentes de los niños, complicándoles las situaciones más normales y simples.

Even when children are taught music, the usual problem often arises: too much emphasis is placed on how they perform, and too little on what they experience. Parents

In less well-ordered families a great deal of energy is expended in constant negotiations and strife, and in the children's attempts to protect their fragile selves from being overwhelmed by other people's goals.

It stands to reason, however, that a child who has been abused, or who has been often threatened with the withdrawal of parental love—and unfortunately we are becoming increasingly aware of what a disturbing proportion of children in our culture are so mistreated—will be so worried about keeping his sense of self from coming apart as to have little energy left to pursue intrinsic rewards.

Unconditional acceptance is especially important to children. If parents threaten to withdraw their love from a child when he fails to measure up, the child's natural playfulness will be gradually replaced by chronic anxiety.

For the majority of people on this earth, life goals are simple: to survive, to leave children who will in turn survive, and, if possible, to do so with a certain amount of comfort and dignity.

Even when children are taught music, the usual problem often arises: too much emphasis is placed on how they perform, and too little on what they experience.

As a man I had to provide my own purpose in life, and probably nothing is more difficult. It is easier to beget children and to thrust the responsibility on them while washing one's own hands.

If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools.

At the end of the day, the best measure of the humanity of any society is the life and happiness of its children. We live in a rich society with poor children, and that should be intolerable.

We live in a rich society with poor children, and that should be intolerable.