“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.” WayWantGivingChildrenImportantSelfHomeSchoolValuesParentAcceptableHandmade Author:Fred Rogers
“It is one of the paradoxes of parenting, and often a painful paradox, that even as our children need us for love and trust, they also need us for honest differing. It's not only over limits and rules...[but also] about what we represent in the way of culture, traditions, and values. We owe it to our children to let them know what we believe, and if they differ with us, we owe it to them to be honest adversaries, for it is through this honest confrontation that children can grow into adults who have a firm sense of their place in the sequence of the generations.” IfsKnowsWayNeedsBelieveChildrenValuesCultureGrowsGenerationsHonestLimitsAdultsTraditionOur ChildrenPainfulBeing HonestFirmParadoxSequenceAdversariesConfrontationLove And Trust Author:Fred Rogers
“What we often take to be family values--the work ethic, honesty, clean living, marital fidelity, and individual responsibility--are in fact social, religious, or cultural values. To be sure, these values are transmitted by parents to their children and are familial in that sense. They do not, however, originate within the family. It is the value of close relationships with other family members, and the importance of these bonds relative to other needs.” NeedsChildrenFactsValuesIndividualSocialParentReligiousResponsibilityHonestyMembersEthicsImportanceCleanRelativeWork EthicFidelityFamily MembersFamily ValuesRelationships With OthersIndividual ResponsibilityClose RelationshipClean Living Author:David Elkind
“In a famous Middletown study of Muncie, Indiana, in 1924, mothers were asked to rank the qualities they most desire in their children. At the top of the list were conformity and strict obedience. More than fifty years later, when the Middletown survey was replicated, mothers placed autonomy and independence first. The healthiest parenting probably promotes a balance of these qualities in children.” YearsFirstsChildrenMotherDesireValuesQualityStudyBalanceIndependenceListsObedienceFiftyConformityStrictAutonomySurveysIndiana Author:Richard Louv
“Children's lives are not shaped solely by their families or immediate surroundings at large. That is why we must avoid the false dichotomy that says only government or only family is responsible. . . . Personal values and national policies must both play a role.” PeopleChildrenPlayGovernmentValuesRolesPolicyResponsibleSurroundingsDichotomyPersonal Values Author:Hillary Clinton
“The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge and understanding, and an appreciation for intellectual values, whether they be artistic, scientific, or moral. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing.” KnowsChildrenDoeArtJoyValuesUnderstandingMoralCreativeKnowingTeacherExpressionWasteCapableIntellectualAskingLongingAppreciationValuableSupremeArtisticQuestioningPupilsImpartAsking QuestionsValuable ThingsCreative ExpressionKnowledge And Understanding Author:Albert Einstein
“Our children need to be able to see us take a stand for a value and against injustices, be those values and injustices in the family room, the boardroom, the classroom, or on the city streets.” NeedsChildrenAbleValuesRoomsCitiesStreetsOur ChildrenInjusticeClassroomCity Streets Author:Barbara Coloroso
“... [the] special relation of women to children, in which the heart of the world has always felt there was something sacred, serves to impress upon women certain tendencies, to endow them with certain virtueswhich will render them of special value in public affairs.” WorldHeartChildrenCertainValuesFeltSpecialRelationSacredAffairMotherhoodTendenciesImpressPublic Affairs Author:Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi
“Many more children observe attitudes, values and ways different from or in conflict with those of their families, social networks,and institutions. Yet today's young people are no more mature or capable of handling the increased conflicting and often stimulating information they receive than were young people of the past, who received the information and had more adult control of and advice about the information they did receive.” PeopleWayChildrenDifferentTodayPastYoungValuesSocialAttitudeAdviceInformationConflictCapableAdultsInstitutionsMatureSocial Network Book:School Power: Implications of an Intervention Project Source: School Power: Implications of an Intervention Project
“The family is both a biological and a cultural group. It is biologic in sense that it is the best arrangement for begetting children and protecting them while they are dependent. It is a cultural group because it brings into intimate association persons of different age and sex who renew and reshape the folkways of the society into which they are born. The household serves as a "cultural workshop" for the transmission of old traditions and for the creation of new social values.” ChildrenPersonsDifferentAgeValuesSocialSexBornGroupsCreationTraditionIntimateDependentAssociationHouseholdArrangementsWorkshopsTransmissionSocial ValuesDifferent AgesOld TraditionsFolkways Author:Arnold Gesell
“Somebody's values and their morals are shown best in the way they treat others and their children, and the world in general. It's not necessarily the way that they respond sexually and emotionally to the person they choose to live with.” WorldWayChildrenPersonsValuesMoralTreatsSexually Author:Rosie O'Donnell
“This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to know what happens next. They force you to tell a story.” KnowsWantWritingChildrenBookSelfStoriesHappensValuesNextForceConsciousnessWriting A BookSelf Consciousness Author:Philip Pullman