15,393 Quotes About Children

Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.

It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.

Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.

When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.

Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality.

Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot always sustain. I come to crave our talk and our daughters gain precious aunts. Women who are not mothering their own children have the clarity and focus to see deeply into the character of children webbed by family. A child is fortuante who feels witnessed as a peron,outside relationships with parents by another adult.

Allow them to paint with their imagination as well. Tall waves and sea monsters in the local park makes for interesting conversations after all.

Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.