Children Quotes

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he is buying.

Its never too late to have a happy childhood.

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right he usually has a son who thinks hes wrong.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make them my friends?

Give a little love to a child and you get a great deal back.

There was a child went forth everyday And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or dread that object he became And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day... or for many years or stretching cycles of years...

In the course of a debate with Lewis Terman: Without offering any data on all that occurs between conception and the age of kindergarten they announce on the basis of what they have got out of a few thousand questionnaires that they are measuring the hereditary mental endowment of human beings. Obviously this is not a conclusion obtained by research. It is a conclusion planted by the will to believe. It is I think for the most part unconsciously planted.... If the impression takes root that these tests really measure intelligence that they constitute a sort of last judgment on the childs capacity that they reveal scientifically his predestined ability then it would be a thousand times better if all the intelligence testers and all their questionnaires were sunk in the Sargasso Sea.

The training of children is a profession where we must know how to waste time in order to save it

Theres no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.