Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics towards which we can be indifferent.
Children Quotes
Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in moods, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement mixer long after one’s interest in the topic has waned.
I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that l could bring to it.
Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts – spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. . . There was only one gift he held back – length of life.
In all our efforts to provide “advantages” we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.
We have made mistakes with our children, which will undoubtedly become clearer as they get old enough to write their own books.
Insanity is hereditary: you can get it from your children.
In bringing up a child, think of its old age.
The real menace in dealing with a five-year -old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.
