“One of the greatest predictors of academic success that exist is the emotional stability of the home. So if parents are interested in education reform, they should also be interested in how they conduct themselves in front of their children. If they are homeschooling their kids, they are even more exposed, so the idea is even more important.” IfsShouldChildrenImportantIdeasHomeKidsParentFrontsEmotionalReformStabilityExposedAcademicHomeschoolingEducation ReformAcademic SuccessEmotional Stability Author:John Medina
“I was always an emotional, tearful kid. As a child I was really focussed on my fine art - I took it very seriously. I really wanted to be a master painter. I didn't think I'd ever become a musician because I was so shy.” ThinkingChildrenArtKidsEmotionalMusicianPainterShyFine Arts Author:Marissa Nadler
“I know most people don't like to be around teenagers but I do. I'm one of the only people I can think of who can't wait for my kid to be a teenager. I think being a teenager is one of the most wonderful things in the world. I really enjoyed it - just this heightened emotional state where everything is beautiful and everything is new and you're convinced that you're really going to break the mould and be different from your parents. And the best part is that you have so much more time that you didn't have as a child.” PeopleThinkingWorldChildrenDifferentKidsBeautifulWaitingParentBreakWonderfulEmotionalTeenagerBeing A Teenager Author:Diablo Cody
“What it means to be a man is to take on all the emotional pain and work through what you got to work through with the people you love while at the same time getting your business done. And it's tough. I think that most children when they grow up they kind of realize that the things they didn't like about their parents or didn't understand about them they get now and that you know every year you get more responsibilities. You get more overhead. You get more things you got to take care off.” PeopleThinkingMenKindMeanChildrenDoneCarePainParentRealizingResponsibilityGrowing UpEmotionalToughTake CareEmotional Pain Author:John Buffalo Mailer
“Even when men do more housework and child care, a lot of times it's still women in charge, delegating, so you have all that noise in your brain. You're on a bike ride or picnic with your family, and it looks like leisure, but on the inside you are keeping track of everybody's emotional temperature, and did I pack this, what are the directions, how much time are we going to be here, do we have anything for dinner? It's like a toilet running all the time.” MenChildrenCareRunningBrainEmotionalTrackOur FamilyHousework Author:Brigid Schulte
“Within the black community, roughly 60 percent of children are born to single moms. Moms don't have the emotional wherewithal to deal with their children. Their English is atrocious. Their speaking is atrocious. The dropout rate is horrendous.” ChildrenBlackBornCommunityDealsEmotionalMomPercentRateSingle MomBlack CommunityDropouts Author:Walter Dean Myers
“Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.” WantChildrenHomeParentGrowthEmotionalPsychological Author:Dirk Benedict
“Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences.” WantChildrenEmotionalProtectAnxietyOur ChildrenPainfulExposureComprehensionPrematurePainful Experiences Author:Maurice Sendak
“A stable and nurturing childhood is essential for the healthy psycho-emotional and spiritual development of a human being. While we may understand what is supposed to happen to us physically, we must begin to better understand what happens to children mentally, emotionally and spiritually as a result of the families into which they are born.” HumansMayChildrenHappensSpiritualBornHuman BeingsResultsChildhoodEmotionalDevelopmentHealthyEssentialsStableNurturingSpiritual DevelopmentPsycho Author:Iyanla Vanzant
“Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.” FeelsChildrenPainMotherEmotionalAddDimensionsBeing A Mother Author:Julie Walters
“The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we're to be happy all the time and our children are to be happy all the time is toxic, and I think that really gets in the way of emotional well-being.” PeopleThinkingWayWellsChildrenSeemsAmericaEmotionalExpectationsOur ChildrenWell BeingToxicEmotional Well Being Author:Andrew Weil
“Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and reduced her to the quivering semblance of a frightened child. But she was a young woman now, no more a girl. She had to personally respond to that emotional humiliation, or the scars from it would haunt her to her grave, forever paralyzing her along her path to discover her true potential in life.” YearsChildrenYoungGirlForeverPathEmotionalDisciplineTrainingDeterminedGravesFrightenedScarYoung WomenHumiliationOwn BusinessAssassinsSemblanceTrue PotentialBrie Author:R. A. Salvatore