15,393 Quotes About Children

Do you not realize that your kids are going to make mistakes, and a lot of them? Do you not realize the damage you do when you push your son’s nose into his mishaps or make your daughter feel worthless because she bumped or spilled something? Do you have any idea how easy it is to make your child feel abject? It’s as simple as letting out the words, “why would you do that!?” or “how many times have I told you…

Nature attunes children to receive the coded messages that parents issue how to live a joyful and virtuous life.

I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's.

When the first book out my sister-in-law read it and we were chatting at 5 o'clock in the afternoon and she said, "Oh my God, chapter six, sex and a murder," and her five year old wandered into the kitchen and said, "Sixty hamburgers?

Writing a book is like raising a child, the only difference is you don’t have the fucking part in writing a book.

The defining background experiences of our childhood affect our vital adulthood decisions and method of apprehending the world.

(...) if a child is not allowed to enter the imaginary, he will never come to grips with the real.

It is your existential responsibility to raise your child as a human being above everything else – catholic, muslim, jew, asian, caucasian or whatever.

It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these