15,393 Quotes About Children

Desires to learn are like the sea. They ebb and flow. Sometimes they are low and sometimes they are high. Some days the kids are vacuum cleaners of ideas and experiences and seem to have limitless curiosity. On other they seem to be becalmed in indifference.

Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.

The measure of a man is determined by the distance between his knees and the ground. The less the distance, the greater the man.

Children are like a stream of water . They need a proper gutter to flow in order

Children are compassionate by nature. Engaging their compassion with communication and connection instead of igniting their self-preservation with threats and punishments is not only more effecting in guiding their behavior, it's also more effective in growing their humanity.

A father knows that the voice of a child singing is nothing less than the heart of a father that lost its voice. And so, rather than write such singing off to the ignorance of childhood muse, the wise father learns to sing again.

Telling a child that something that matters to them isn't important doesn't convince them it doesn't matter. It just convinces them that it doesn't matter to you and often makes them feel like they don't matter, either. Remember, caring about the little things that matter to little people creates big connections.

Nothing compares to becoming aware of the massive face of the universe hidden in a newborn’s stare.

We don't lose ourselves in parenthood. We find parts of ourselves we never knew existed.