15,393 Quotes About Children

She lay outside in the courtyard, staring up at the raindrops… feeling them hit her body… trying to guess where one would land next. The nuns called again, threatening that pneumonia might make an insufferably headstrong child a lot less curious about nature.

Then turn your eyes back on me,and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects.

Made weird children--will die proud. -Rachel Pealer

It is easier for small children to obey rules than making choices for themselves. In fact this doesn’t change when one grows up. -Red White Love: The Love of Liverpool FC

Most parents are not really ‘supportive’ because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they ‘support’ their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid appearing to have bred a failure, or, failures … in the eyes of their peers and/or neighbours.

What if the actual sin was that despite the fact of knowing how cruel and unfair this world is; we still bring children to life?

Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child.

Kids didn't have huge backpacks when I was their age. We didn't have backpacks at all. Now it seemed all the kids had them. You saw little second-graders bent over like sherpas, dragging themselves through the school doors under the weight of their packs. Some of the kids had their packs on rollers, hauling them like luggage at the airport. I didn't understand any of this. The world was becoming digital; everything was smaller and lighter. But kids at school lugged more weight than ever.

...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.