Quotes about child
children play adults
The main characteristic of play - whether of child or adult - is not it content but its mode. Play is an approach to action, not a form of activity. Jerome Bruner
children teaching learning
The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field.
children development taught
We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.
children teaching cutting
Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence.
children stories language
We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.
children blessed grandparent
My life is blessed; I have held my children's children. Jeremy Taylor
children personality tigress
Tigress is my alternate personality, especially with children. I love animation because you get to do things you don't normally get to. Jennifer Yuh Nelson
children book writing
I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today. Jennifer Weiner
children couple careers
I don't care how happily married you are or how deeply enmeshed you are with your children and family and career -- every woman needs a couple of chicks who'll break out the sangria just because you need to vent. Jen Lancaster
children listening actors
For a child actor, its a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared. Jena Malone
children writing class
I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class.
children cutting habit
When you're literally carrying a child you can cut back on bad habits. Jemima Kirke
children pie fingers
I was born in the late '50s, was a child of the '60s, then the '70s, then the '80s, then the '90s, and I have mental fingers in all those pies. Jello Biafra
children war school
News footage came on the TV during dinner of bloody bodies coming back from battle in Vietnam, or the race riots in the South, people getting hosed in Selma, Alabama, or the Biafra war, where I got my name. In my household, it was explained and discussed with the children, as a way of educating us from when we first started grade school why racism and war were wrong, what this all really means.
children government abuse
The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists. Jeanne Tripplehorn
children reinforcement negative
Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior. Jeannette Walls
children growing-up kids
No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics.
children parent swim
You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim
children blessing unique
Florida has its own rhythm, too. People go to work, they watch their children learn and grow and start families of their own. They play in the sun and pass their lives enjoying the outsized blessings that make our state unique. Jeb Bush
children school college
Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission.
children expectations achieve
Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.
children glasses trying
You've got to try this," I told Bones, handing him the glass. "It's like Cristal and O-Negative had a love child. Jeaniene Frost
children cat okay
The image I'd had of myself as a child was someone I'd never be, and it was only recently that I realized it was okay to be who I was. - Cat
children kissing romance
Don't kiss me like a woman if you're going to treat me like a child.
children suffering important
I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure. Jim Doyle
children thinking cartoon
I think the cartoons that they're children are watching, particularly 'The Simpsons,' they're OK. I think that the adult audience is making much too much of the danger that they imply. That's not the case. The danger for children today, honey, is the news. Keep them away from news on television. Jerry Lewis
children growing-up years
A lot of people resent that I've been in someone's life for 50 years. Why shouldn't people have an affection for me and what I've done? Didn't I have to be genuine for them to buy into what I did? There are children who grow up today who will not have that when they're 55 years old. With whom will they have it? Name an example for me.
children war party
The Afghan War has clearly reached a stage similar to that moment at your child's party where you realise you've forgotten to give the other parents a pick up time. Jeremy Hardy
children hate thinking
I think camping is one of those things where if you're forced into it as a child, you'll probably hate it as an adult. Jeremy Irvine
children taken acting
Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up. Jeremy Irons
children thinking doctors
I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.
children love-is creating
I love being part of a group who tells stories, whether it be in the theater or in cinema, and I love creating imaginary worlds rather as children do, but I never had a burning desire to act, but it just sort of suited me.
children optimistic views
What choices are you making in your perception of the events around you? We choose how we view our times. There is a pinch of pessimism in our culture now. Counter it with small acts of optimism. Pick up a piece of litter that isn't yours. Show some extra grace on the freeway. Give to your food bank. Smile at a child who is in your way. Help someone you know. Help someone you don't know. The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace. What's your choice? Jennifer James