“I don't sense that people are loving the adults the way they have learned to love kids, because the truth is, they're not going to be cute in the same as kids are. And they shouldn't have to be cute to deserve and merit our attention and support.” PeopleWayKidsAttentionSupportTruth IsAdultsDeserveCuteMeritKids Love Author:John Donvan
“I love my job so much. I thought, what a cool way for kids to learn, via assignment, via reporting. I learn so much as an adult going around and covering these stories. How fun it would be to do it via a storybook app and cartoon characters. My daughter can work on an iPhone and iPad like crazy. That's their world. If you can use that, use it educationally.” IfsWorldWayCharacterStoriesUseWould BeKidsJobsFunCrazyDaughterAdultsMy DaughterCartoonCoveringIphoneAssignmentsAppsIpadsCartoon Character Author:Nancy O'Dell
“Especially with the video games and social media we have now, I think that turning point from kid to sort of adult has gotten earlier with TV shows that are on right now and video games. They all contribute to that.” ThinkingShowsKidsGamesSocialMediaTvsRight NowAdultsSocial MediaVideoTv ShowsTurning Points Author:Gage Munroe
“Kids dealing with these really adult-problems. I'm making big, generalized statements but our culture doesn't acknowledge these things. Sex does lead to pregnancy! Kids don't always have an outlet or someone they can talk to about it.” DoeProblemBigsKidsCultureSexAdultsStatementsAcknowledgePregnancyOutlets Author:Sarah Steele
“I had a very specific goal and I think kids, more than adults, don't understand obstacles and competition. I wanted to be this one cartoon character [Porky Pig], couldn't figure out why I couldn't do it, other than living in the midwest.” ThinkingCharacterKidsWantedGoalFiguresAdultsCompetitionObstaclesPigsCartoonMidwestCartoon CharacterSpecific Goals Author:Bob Bergen
“Kids don't have the same sense of their own mortality as adults.” KidsAdultsMortality Author:Lee Unkrich
“"Sesame Street" was really the first kid's show that my dad did. He did a couple of TV specials that were targeted for kids before "Sesame Street," but really, it was, it's kind of going back to our roots, when we start to get adult. This show gets very adult sometimes, and that's because of the audience.” FirstsKindSometimesShowsKidsAudienceStreetsTvsCoupleDadAdultsRootsMy DadSesame Street Author:Brian Henson
“I visit the island [Puerto Rico] as often as I humanly can. And I visit with community as frequently as possible, given the demands on me. I meet with kids. I meet with adults. I try to spend time and to listen to people talk about their lives.” PeopleTryingKidsGivenCommunityDemandAdultsIslandsEnd TimesSpend TimePuerto RicoRico Author:Sonia Sotomayor
“The vast majority (over 80 percent) of fast-food and similar low wage service jobs (<$9.24/hr) are held by adults. A quarter are adults over 40. Another quarter are moms raising kids.” KidsJobsMomLowsPercentAdultsMajorityQuartersFast FoodRaising Kids Author:David Rolf
“In our family, at this point,[Sunday School] its not a choice for my kids. It's a duty for us as parents to give them faith as a foundation and hope that when they bemuse older teens and young adults they will choose the same thing for themselves.” GivingKidsSchoolYoungChoicesParentDutyAdultsFoundationYoung AdultOur FamilySundayTeensSunday School Author:Gretchen Carlson
“High school is a really strange time - you're not a kid, you're not an adult. You're about to be an adult, you're going to have to make some really intense decisions. It's a really pivotal time to have as much self-confidence as you possibly can. Even if that means you have one friend who supports you completely.” IfsMeanSelfKidsSchoolDecisionSupportStrangeHigh SchoolAdultsSelf ConfidenceIntenseSupport YouPivotalOne FriendStrange Times Author:Tyler Blackburn
“I wasn't a pain in the ass when I was a kid. So I think being a screw-up as an adult is way more acceptable.” ThinkingWayKidsPainAdultsAssAcceptableScrewsScrew Ups Author:Daniel Tosh
“When people contact me on Instagram or Facebook, kids and adults, who say, "You're an inspiration. You make me want to work hard to achieve my goals." If I can still do that after I retire that makes me feel good.” PeopleIfsWantFeelsStillsI CanHardInspirationKidsGoalAchieveHard WorkAdultsFeel GoodContactRetiringInstagram Author:Usain Bolt
“There are so many shocking things. Is it more shocking that there are children sold into slavery in every city in the world and right under our noses or that there are villages in Nepal where there are no children left because they have all been kidnapped for sex trafficking, or that there are generations of slaves in some countries where indentured slavery passes from generation to generation and that kids grow into adults not knowing that another world - another life - exists?” WorldChildrenCountryKidsLeftSexGrowsCitiesKnowingGenerationsAdultsSlaverySlaveNosesVillageNot KnowingShockingAnother WorldAnother LifeTraffickingKidnappedNepalCities In The WorldShocking Things Author:Gillian Anderson
“I signed my deal when I was 11, and the success I had, no one could explain that to an adult, what's about to happen to them, much less a kid. There's not many people around who've experienced that.” PeopleHappensKidsDealsAdults Author:LeAnn Rimes
“It's a lot easier to make friends when you're younger, because kids are a lot less judgmental than adults. They're more like, "O.K., let's be friends." Not, "So, what's your job?" "What's your marriage status?"” KidsJobsEasierAdultsJudgmental Author:Natalie Portman
“As a kid, there [on TV] were things I wasn't aware of - insecurities while transition from teen to adult. When I was around 17 and 18, I started seeing the benefits of this world.” WorldKidsSeeingThis WorldTvsBenefitsAdultsInsecurityTransition Author:Kofi Siriboe
“What fuels me is that there are a lot of people coming to Broadway and to the show [Aladdin] for the first time. Lots of kids and lots of adults and it's usually the kids were it's a special moment for them.” PeopleFirstsMomentsShowsKidsSpecialAdultsFirst TimeFuelBroadwaySpecial Moments Author:Adam Jacobs
“It's actually not very hard to re-set between the adult novels and the ones for younger readers. The narrative voices are very similar, the smartass attitude, the environmental battles. Kids love books that are irreverent and challenge authority, when authority is arbitrary, greedy or foolish. They also love it when you make fun of grownups, and I've spent my whole life as a writer doing that.” BookHardWholeKidsFunVoiceChallengesAttitudeNovelReaderBattleAuthorityAdultsEnvironmentalWhole LifeFoolishNarrativeGreedyArbitraryGrownupsKids LoveIrreverentSmartassNarrative Voice Author:Carl Hiaasen
“The StarTalks - while kids can watch them, they're actually targeted at adults. Because adults outnumber kids five to one, and adults vote, and adults wield resources, and adults are heads of agencies. So if we're going to affect policy, or affect attitudes, for me, the adults have always been the target population.” IfsKidsAttitudeWatchesFivePolicyAdultsResourcesVotePopulationAgencyTarget Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I had so many adults around me reminding me that I was a kid. I also had a lot of adults saying things to me like, "When I was your age..." and sort of idealizing it. I didn't like that they idealized it.” KidsAgeAdultsReminding Author:Mara Wilson
“Kids can make a difference by telling an adult about any bullying they see. Kids need to know that they can be helpful in a bad situation if they get help quickly and also they need to stand up for the child that's being bullied.” IfsKnowsNeedsChildrenHelpingKidsDifferencesSituationAdultsMaking A DifferenceHelpfulBullyingBulliedBeing BulliedBad Situations Author:Josh Flitter
“There's a part of me with every book that thinks, What would it have meant for me tohave had this book when I was a kid? I decided to create a book for girls like me. The Littlest Bigfoot is about bullying and body image and girls who don't fit in. It's like training wheels for my adult books - like Sex and the City, but with 12-year-olds.” ThinkingYearsBookBodyKidsGirlSexCitiesFitTrainingAdultsDecidedLike MeWheelsBullyingBody ImageBigfootSex And The CityTraining Wheels Author:Jennifer Weiner
“Kids play make-believe all the time, so they tend to be better at using their imaginations than adults.” BelievePlayKidsImaginationAdultsMake Believe Author:Adam Rubin
“Some parents let kids "learn on their own skin" and many of those kids end up, as adults, languishing on their parents' sofas.” EndsKidsParentAdultsSkinsSofas Author:Marty Nemko
“A lot of adults don't think it's their place to interfere with kids. I interfere all the time.” ThinkingKidsAdultsInterfere Author:Khloe Kardashian
“If you're going to take care of your kids and pay for your house and do something good for adults, you have to do something on television now.” IfsCareKidsHousePayTelevisionAdultsTake Care Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“Italy is hard to beat. It's a family-friendly experience, they like to see kids in restaurants, and at dinner you see all the adults at the table and all the kids at the other end of the table. Maybe they run off and go play.” EndsHardPlayRunningKidsBeatsAdultsTablesDinnerRestaurantsFriendly Author:Anthony Bourdain
“I still think there is a way to take all the mistakes that we've made as adults and put a little bit of a salve on them, a little bit of a fix on them, if we just are a little smarter in what we teach our kids.” IfsThinkingWayLittlesMadeStillsKidsBitsMistakeTeachLittle BitAdultsSmarter Author:Mitch Albom
“There are some things that are more appropriate to a children's than an adult book but there's a huge overlapping area and most kids read an age group up anyway.” ChildrenBookKidsAgeGroupsHugeAdultsAreasAppropriateOverlapping Author:Terry Pratchett
“No one thinks that young adults read hooks for YOUNG ADULTS, books for young adults are read by kids.” ThinkingBookKidsYoungAdultsYoung AdultHook Author:Terry Pratchett
“It is always just telling a story, regardless of the age of the reader. Except, if I'm writing something for kids, I know there has to be hope. I don't necessarily feel that responsibility for adults, but I emphatically feel it for children. That's the only difference. There's no syntax difference. There's no semantics difference. There's no thematic difference.” IfsKnowsFeelsWritingChildrenStoriesKidsAgeDifferencesResponsibilityReaderAdultsSyntaxSemanticsThematic Author:Kate DiCamillo
“I'm grateful for every teacher or librarian who reads a book and says, "This is exactly the book that so-and-so needs to read; I'll get it in his hands." I'm amazed at the network of adults who make sure that kids get books.” NeedsBookHandsKidsTeacherAdultsGratefulAmazedLibrarian Author:Kate DiCamillo
“This is the great thing about writing for kids. Adults might not do anything if they recognized me. But if they do see me, and they're with a kid, they'll tell the kid who I am. They think they should give that to the kid. So generally that sends the kid over.” IfsThinkingGivingShouldWritingMightKidsAdultsWho I AmGreat Things Author:Kate DiCamillo
“I was the sensitive, shy kid that was teased a lot. I was very definitely bullied. I mean, from an early age, I dressed more like an adult, you know, jackets and very slim trousers and a raincoat. And I - even when I was 7, 8, 9-years-old, carried an attache case to school because I just hated the sloppiness of a book bag.” KnowsYearsMeanBookKidsAgeSchoolCasesAdultsHatedSensitiveBagsShyJacketsBulliedSlimTrousersSloppiness Author:Tom Ford
“I believe an adult must intervene. You really have to. Kids just don't have the emotional maturity to deal with bullying and it can be extremely damaging; it can be life-changing. So I see that as a special thing that people need to be very careful in how they handle bullying.” PeopleNeedsBelieveKidsI BelieveDealsSpecialEmotionalAdultsCarefulHandleMaturityLife ChangingBullyingSpecial ThingsEmotional Maturity Author:Megyn Kelly
“Emotionally, my ambition is not yet sated. Emotionally, I still feel like a kid at the adult's table, yearning for recognition. I'm not sure where this all comes from but it is how I feel.” FeelsStillsKidsAmbitionAdultsTablesRecognitionNot SureYearningMy AmbitionSated Author:Roxane Gay
“Almost 40% of all young adults are living with their parents. This is a 75-year high in America. Forty percent of young adults are living with their parents. I see stuff like this, and I think it's a good thing I didn't become a parent, because if that were happening to me, you wouldn't want to be my kid.” IfsThinkingWantYearsKidsAmericaYoungStuffParentHappeningsPercentAdultsGood ThingsYoung AdultForty Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If I could've picked a birthday it would've been on Halloween. Yeah, it's always been my favorite holiday. Not because it was my birthday, but actually because, I think it was the freedom, you know? When you were a little kid, you got to go out and be an adult for a couple of hours. You got to, like, just go out with your friends and knock on peoples' doors and be nuts and pull pranks and stuff like that. You could be whoever you wanted to be, you know, I guess that was the appeal to it.” IfsThinkingKnowsLittlesKidsWantedStuffHoursDoorsCoupleAdultsYeahMy FavoriteAppealsIf I CouldHolidayNutsBe YouHalloweenLittle KidMy BirthdayPranks Author:Frank Iero
“You don't take your newborn baby, put that baby on your lap, and say, "Now listen, kid, you were born in sin, you're not worth anything, and you've got to pray for mercy." That's not going to raise a healthy adult. And that's what we do Sunday after Sunday after Sunday.” KidsBornSinBabyPrayingHealthyAdultsMercyRaisesSundayLapNewbornNewborn BabyPray For Me Author:John Shelby Spong
“We're still missing about a dozen vaccines that will make a huge difference. For adults, we've got HIV and TB are still huge; for kids malaria is still killing a half million kids a year out of that 6 million. We probably need some vaccines, but we need a little more data to make sure we're getting the vaccines that will save the most lives.” NeedsYearsLittlesStillsKidsDifferencesHalfMillionsMissingHugeAdultsKillingDataDozenHivVaccinesMalaria Author:Bill Gates
“We tend to think of orphans as being the protagonist of stories we read when we're kids, and yet here you are: you're an adult, you're supposed to manage, you're supposed to get over it, you're supposed to go on with your life, and you feel like a lost child.” ThinkingFeelsChildrenStoriesKidsLostGoes OnAdultsManageOver ItGet OverOrphanProtagonistsLost Child Author:Sandra Cisneros
“Having pets can teach us a lot of things. For kids, they are often their first lesson in responsibility, and being responsible for the well-being of another living thing is actually great for anyone, kid or adult. It teaches empathy, consistency, and so much more - especially if that pet is a dog.” IfsFirstsWellsKidsResponsibilityTeachDogLessonsEmpathyAdultsResponsibleWell BeingPetConsistencyLiving ThingsBeing Responsible Author:Cesar Millan
“Curiosity is unknown. All adults were once kids and once curious, but as adults you don't remember that and you see curiosity when it's expressed in children as a pathway to household disaster. They're simply exploring their environment, manifesting their curiosity. So what you need to do is create an environment where curiosity is rewarded rather than punished, or thwarted.” NeedsChildrenKidsRememberEnvironmentAdultsCuriosityDisasterCuriousManifestHouseholdExploringPathways Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Look at the growing number of people that want to ban football. Or ban anything that might hurt somebody. Too violent or too brutal or what have you. There's a segment of our adult population that's still children, still kids.” PeopleWantLooksChildrenStillsMightKidsHurtNumbersGrowingFootballAdultsPopulationViolentBrutalBans Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Kids need to know more than just about unicorns and zombies and vampires. The rhetoric that's coming out is anti-black, anti-Mexico, anti-diversity. [Adults] definitely need to put it in context. I've talked to people who are literally struggling to sleep because they're anxious. Children pick up on that. Talk to your kid. Tell them, "this is what's bothering me." Explain that what's going on is unacceptable.” PeopleKnowsNeedsChildrenKidsBlackSleepStruggleDiversityPicksAdultsVampireBotherAnxiousComing OutMexicoRhetoricZombieUnicorn Author:Eric Walters
“I never thought when I was a kid that I would become an adult. I never thought of myself as having any sort of distant horizon. I have sort of leapt without a master plan.” KidsPlansMastersAdultsHorizon Author:Rachel Maddow
“In my journey to becoming an artist who writes, I tend to start my idea process with simple, concrete messages that relate to what kids may be experiencing as they navigate through childhood and adolescence putting together building blocks of the foundations on which they will become adults.” WritingMayIdeasKidsTogetherArtistProcessSimpleJourneyChildhoodBuildingBecomingMessagesAdultsFoundationBlockRelateConcreteAdolescenceNavigateMy JourneyBuilding Blocks Author:Floyd Cooper
“The reason they came up with the ratings board is that there are a lot of movies out there, and parents need some guidance. Not only for the kids, but for adults, as well. If you don't like to see a certain kind of film, there should be some rating, so that you know what you're getting into. But the present system doesn't work.” IfsKnowsNeedsShouldWellsKindReasonKidsFilmCertainParentAdultsGuidanceBoardsRating Author:William H. Macy