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"Children almost always hang onto things tighter than their parents think they will."
Quote by -E. B. White
"If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers."
Quote by -Edgar Watson Howe
"Unlike most divorces, where the children were usually the first to know, my parents were very good about keeping that a secret."
Quote by -Frank Abagnale
"We really need to get control over Social Security numbers. My children's generation, they're past it. But their children should be able to have a number that is secure."
Quote by -Frank Abagnale
"Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning...They have to play with what they know to be true in order to find out more, and then they can use what they learn in new forms of play."
Quote by -Fred Rogers
"We want to raise our children so that they can take a sense of pleasure in both their own heritage and the diversity of others."
Quote by -Fred Rogers
"The world is not always a kind place. That's something all children learn for themselves, whether we want them to or not, but it's something they really need our help to understand."
Quote by -Fred Rogers
"My hunch is that if we allow ourselves to give who we really are to the children in our care, we will in some way inspire cartwheels in their hearts."
Quote by -Fred Rogers
"When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us as surely as the moon affects the tides, and affect us in some ways more deeply than anyone else can. Our children are extensions of ourselves."
Quote by -Fred Rogers
"When I was very young, most of my childhood heroes wore capes, flew through the air, or picked up buildings with one arm. They were spectacular and got a lot of attention. But as I grew, my heroes changed, so that now I can honestly say that anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me."
Quote by -Fred Rogers
"When we treat children's play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that's to be found in the creative spirit. It's the things we play with and the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives."
Quote by -Fred Rogers
"Most of us, I believe, admire strength. It's something we tend to respect in others, desire for ourselves, and wish for our children. Sometimes, though, I wonder if we confuse strength with other words—like 'aggression' and even 'violence'. Real strength is neither male nor female; but it is, quite simply, one of the finest characteristics that a human being can possess."
Quote by -Fred Rogers
"What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more than any one thing. A sick child is much more than his or her sickness. A person with a disability is much, much more than a handicap. A pediatrician is more than a medical doctor. You're MUCH more than your job description or your age or your income or your output."
Quote by -Fred Rogers
"I doubt that we can ever successfully impose values or attitudes or behaviors on our children certainly not by threat, guilt, or punishment. But I do believe they can be induced through relationships where parents and children are growing together. Such relationships are, I believe, build on trust, example, talk, and caring."
Quote by -Fred Rogers
"The presence of a grandparent confirms that parents were, indeed, little once, too, and that people who are little can grow to be big, can become parents, and one day even have grandchildren of their own. So often we think of grandparents as belonging to the past; but in this important way, grandparents, for young children, belong to the future."
Quote by -Fred Rogers
"Love is at the root of all healthy discipline. The desire to be loved is a powerful motivation for children to behave in ways thatgive their parents pleasure rather than displeasure. it may even be our own long-ago fear of losing our parents' love that now sometimes makes us uneasy about setting and maintaining limits. We're afraid we'll lose the love of our children when we don't let them have their way."
Quote by -Fred Rogers
"The roots of a child's ability to cope and thrive, regardless of circumstance, lie in that child's having had at least a small, safe place (an apartment? a room? a lap?) in which, in the companionship of a loving person, that child could discover that he or she was lovable and capable of loving in return. If a child finds this during the first years of life, he or she can grow up to be a competent, healthy person."
Quote by -Fred Rogers
"We've forgotten what it's like not to be able to reach the light switch. We've forgotten a lot of the monsters that seemed to livein our room at night. Nevertheless, those memories are still there, somewhere inside us, and can sometimes be brought to the surface by events, sights, sounds, or smells. Children, though, can never have grown-up feelings until they've been allowed to do the growing."
Quote by -Fred Rogers
"[I]f we can bring our children understanding, comfort, and hopefulness when they need this kind of support, then they are more likely to grow into adults who can find these resources within themselves later on. (from the introduction)"
Quote by -Fred Rogers
"And those handmade presents that children often bring home from school: They have so much value! The value is that the child put whatever he or she could into making them. The way we parents respond to the giving of such gifts is very important. To the child the gift is really self, and they want so much for their selves to be acceptable, to be loved."
Quote by -Fred Rogers
"Call them rules or call them limits, good ones, I believe, have this in common: they serve reasonable purposes; they are practical and within a child's capability; they are consistent; and they are an expression of loving concern."
Quote by -Fred Rogers
"As different as we are from one another, as unique as each one of us is, we are much more the same than we are different. That may be the most essential message of all, as we help our children grow toward being caring, compassionate, and charitable adults."
Quote by -Fred Rogers
"The very best reason parents are so special . . . is because we are the holders of a priceless gift, a gift we received from countless generations we never knew, a gift that only we now possess and only we can give to our children. That unique gift, of course, is the gift of ourselves. Whatever we can do to give that gift, and to help others receive it, is worth the challenge of all our human endeavor."
Quote by -Fred Rogers
"Of course, I get angry. Of course, I get sad. I have a full range of emotions. I also have a whole smorgasbord of ways of dealing with my feelings. That is what we should give children. Give them ... ways to express their rage without hurting themselves or somebody else. That's what the world needs."
Quote by -Fred Rogers
"If you like to make things out of wood, or sew, or dance, or style people's hair, or dream up stories and act them out, "or "play the trumpet, or jump rope, or whatever you really love to do, and you love that in front of your children, that's going to be a far more important gift than anything you could ever give them wrapped up in a box with ribbons."
Quote by -Fred Rogers
"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."
Quote by -James A. Baldwin
"The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out."
Quote by -James A. Baldwin
"Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty."
Quote by -Friedrich Engels
"I started a youth center in Houston. The kids would come in and want to learn to box; they wanted to tear up the world, beat up the world. And I'd try to show them they didn't need anger. They didn't need all that killing instinct they'd read about. You can be a human being and pursue boxing as a sport."
Quote by -George Foreman
"Our heavenly Father never takes anything from his children unless he means to give them something better."
Quote by -George Muller
"A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition."
Quote by -George Muller
"Attention for children is so much about input, and the brain can only filter so much - I don't know how many millions of messages that come through the brain, and we can only filter so much through it."
Quote by -Goldie Hawn
"A child's giggle tickles me deeply, and it breaks my heart when that begins to disappear. So I do what I can to create opportunities for children to continue to laugh and rediscover their joy."
Quote by -Goldie Hawn
"Today we find many children with bad character and bad behavior. The reason for this can be attributed to the bad thoughts of their mothers."
Quote by -Sathya Baba
"The Avatar is a child to the children, a boy to the boys, a man among men, a woman among women, so that the Avatarââ¬â¢s message might reach each heart and receive enthusiastic response as Ananda. It is the compassion of the Avatar that prompts His every action."
Quote by -Sathya Baba
"Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head nor tail out of it."
Quote by -Groucho Marx
"My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one."
Quote by -Groucho Marx
"The age of your children is a key factor in how quickly you are served in a restaurant. We once had a waiter in Canada who said, "Could I get you your check?" and we answered, "How about the menu first?"
Quote by -Erma Bombeck
"When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out."
Quote by -Erma Bombeck
"My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car."
Quote by -Erma Bombeck