An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.

As a child I was middle-aged and cautious compared to my impulsive father.

Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive.

No one can remember himself as an unpleasant child.

Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.

Every parent can imagine the joys of child abuse.

Liberal Doctrine: it is not children who misbehave, but parents.

Children would die of terror if they knew the folly and ignorance of their caretakers.

Children consider disliking their parents natural, but if the dislike is returned, they are outraged.