“We believe that more than 4 percent of the children in this country suffer ADHD... We want to know how to better identify and refer children for treatment.” KnowsWantBelieveChildrenCountrySufferingKnow HowPercentTreatmentAdhd Author:David Satcher
“I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure my children know how much I love them and they are absolutely secure in that.” KnowsChildrenMadeMotherMistakeKnow HowOne ThingSecureMy Children Author:Ayelet Waldman
“When we are very young children we know how to feel. It's innate. But as we lead a lifetime, we pick up so many thoughts, impressions, feelings, and ideas, that our sensitivity goes away.” KnowsInspirationalFeelsChildrenIdeasFeelingsYoungKnow HowBuddhismPicksLifetimeImpressionSensitivityInnateYoung Children Author:Frederick Lenz
“One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.” KnowsWayChildrenDoeArtistLiteratureWonderKnow HowAlivePoetBlessedSense Of Wonder Author:Ella Maillart
“Love involves more than just feelings. It is also a way of behaving. When Sandy said, "My parents don't know how to love me," she was saying that they don't know how to behave in loving ways. If you were to ask Sandy's parents, or almost any other toxic parents, if they love their children, most of them would answer emphatically that they do. Yet, sadly, most of their children have always felt unloved. What toxic parents call "love" rarely translates into nourishing, comforting behavior.” IfsKnowsWayChildrenSaidFeelingsAsksFeltParentAnswersHealingKnow HowBehaviorBehaveToxicTeensTranslateComfortingHow To LoveUnlovedSandy Author:Susan Forward
“I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come into contact with art - that's wonderful.” KnowsGivingChildrenArtOpportunityKnow HowWonderfulChangedContactChanged My Life Author:Jeff Koons
“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.” KnowsChildrenAttentionBrainMillionsKnow HowMessagesFiltersInput Author:Goldie
“Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be able to read. I was reading Kipling and PG Wodehouse and Shakespeare at the age of 11. The kind of description and detail I read I would not put in my books. I don't know how much you can fight that because you want children to read. So I pack in excitement and plot and illustrations and have a cliffhanger every chapter. Charles Dickens was doing cliffhangers way back when. But even with all the excitement you have to make children care about the characters.” KnowsWayWantKindChildrenBookCharacterCareKidsAgeAbleFightingReadingAttentionKnow HowChildhoodDetailsExcitementDescriptionPlotChaptersPacksBack WhenIllustrationDickensAttention SpanChild CareCliffhangerKiplingWay Back When Author:Cressida Cowell
“I've played a mother many times, even in tragic things like, "I Dreamed of Africa," so I know how it is to lose a child cinematically. I have so much compassion on so many fronts, for women who have lost children or tried for years and couldn't have them.” KnowsYearsChildrenMotherLostLosesCompassionKnow HowFrontsTragicLost Child Author:Kim Basinger
“As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control. It was a natural next step to want to know how the universe works.” KnowsWantChildrenWantedUniverseNextNaturalNumbersStepsKnow HowModelsBuiltComplicatedNext Steps Author:Stephen Hawking