Quotes about child
children sacrifice self
The relations between parents and children are certainly not only those of constraint. There is spontaneous mutual affection, which from the first prompts the child to acts of generosity and even of self-sacrifice, to very touching demonstrations which are in no way prescribed. And here no doubt is the starting point for that morality of good which we shall see developing alongside of the morality of right or duty, and which in some persons completely replaces it. Jean Piaget
children balance looks
Mixture of assimilation to earlier schemas and adaptation to the actual conditions of the situation is what defines motor intelligence. But and this is where rules come into existence as soon as a balance is established between adaptation and assimilation, the course of conduct adopted becomes crystallized and ritualized. New schemas are even established which the child looks for and retains with care, as though they were obligatory or charged with efficacy.
children lying naughty
The child who defines a lie as being a "naughty word" knows perfectly well that lying consists in not speaking the truth. He is not, therefore, mistaking one thing for another, he is simply identifying them one with another by what seems to us a quaint extension of the word "lie".
children attitude intellectual
In certain circumstances where he experiments in new types of conduct by cooperating with his equals, the child is already an adult. There is an adult in every child and a child in every adult. ... There exist in the child certain attitudes and beliefs which intellectual development will more and more tend to eliminate: there are others which will acquire more and more importance. The later are not derived from the former but are partly antagonistic to them.
children teach inventing
Everytime we teach a child something, we prevent him from inventing it himself.
children reality action
During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.
children understanding teach
Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely.
children interesting mind
How can we, with our adult minds, know what will be interesting? If you follow the child...you can find out something new...
children real understanding
Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves.
children mean people
Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me and no one else, education means making creators. . . . You have to make inventors, innovators...not conformists
children real teaching
Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.
children play long
Children require long, uniterrupted periods of play and exploration
children discovery creative
Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative and innovative minds, capable of discovery from the preschool age on, throughout life?
children hands childhood
Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.
children learning forever
When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.
children evil atmosphere
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe. Jean Paul
children quality needs
When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming. Jim Henson
children people common
The most sophisticated people I've ever known had just one thing in common: they were all in touch with their inner children.
children believe imagination
As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.
children bird wish
When we were children we were errant enough to wish to be birds for the day but there's nothing easier to lose than playfulness. Jim Harrison
children thinking parent
I think every parent takes more pleasure in seeing their child succeed than seeing themselves succeed. Jerry Reinsdorf
children order america
I am a child of America. If ever I'm sent to Death Row for my revolutionary 'crimes,' I'll order as my last meal: a hamburger, french fries, and a coke. Jerry Rubin
children important earth
Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study. Jerry Spinelli
children ghetto grows
This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.
children kids office
The kids who leave their favorite authors behind do not in fact leave us utterly abandoned, but in due time drive children of their own to the bookstore and the post office.
children accidents
I became a children's author by accident.
children maturity years
When you've been in the business 5-years, as a person, it's like you're 5-years old - like a child. 10-years and you're 10-years old, 20... Etcetera. That's how I measure maturity in this industry. Jerry Seinfeld
children memories believe
That is just the way with Memory; nothing that she brings to us is complete. She is a willful child; all her toys are broken. I remember tumbling into a huge dust-hole when a very small boy, but I have not the faintest recollection of ever getting out again; and if memory were all we had to trust to, I should be compelled to believe I was there still. Jerome K. Jerome
children commitment issues
Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively. Jenny Shipley
children stress kids
Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids - now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong? Jeffrey Kluger
children achievement adults
In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.
children autism childhood
A child gets vaccinated and soon after, autism symptoms emerge. The apparent cause-and-effect is understandable but erroneous - more a coincidence of the calendar and childhood developmental stages than anything else, as repeated and exhaustive studies have shown.
children sibling school
When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods - at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance.