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“We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buy Montessori outfits that were invented for semi-imbeciles in Italian slums; or we send them to outdoor schools and give them prizes for sleeping.”

Ifs Giving Children School Young Sleep Reasoning Prize Italian Ruined Young Children Kindergarten Outfits Slums Imbeciles Montessori

Author:Katharine Fullerton Gerould

“Parents who are cowed by temper tantrums and screaming defiance are only inviting more of the same. Young children become more cooperative with parents who confidently assert the reasons for their demands and enforce reasonable rules. Even if there are a few rough spots, relationships between parents and young children run more smoothly when the parent, rather than the child, is in control.”

Ifs Children Reason Running Young Parent Discipline Demand Spots Reasonable Rough Temper Defiance Inviting Young Children Cooperatives Tantrums Temper Tantrums

Author:Sandra Scarr

“The time-use studies also show that employed women spend as much time as nonworking women in direct interactions with their children. Employed mothers spend as much time as those at home reading to and playing with their young children, although they do not, of course, spend as much time simply in the same room or house with the children.”

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Author:Sandra Scarr

“Babies learn most of what they know from interactions with their parents, but not of the formal, instructional variety. Babies learn from spontaneous, everyday events--the mailman at the door with a package to open...all of which need adult interpretation. They are real events of interest and concern to babies and young children....By contrast, infant education is artificial and out of context.”

“Mothers and fathers act in mostly similar ways toward their young children. Psychologists are still highlighting small differencesrather than the overwhelming similarities in parents' behaviors. I think this is a hangover from the 1950s re-emergence of father as a parent. He has to be special. The best summary of the evidence on mothers and fathers with their babies is that young children of both sexes, in most circumstances, like both parents equally well. Fathers, like mothers, are good parents first and gender representatives second.”

“Some television programs are made very attractive to young children by presenting short, rapidly moving sequences and ever-changing episodes.... Some experts now argue that slower- paced television fare that allows children time to think about the material is more valuable than the faster-paced programs that merely capture their attention.”

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Author:Sandra Scarr

“Fences, unlike punishments, clearly mark out the perimeters of any specified territory. Young children learn where it is permissible to play, because their backyard fence plainly outlines the safe area. They learn about the invisible fence that surrounds the stove, and that Grandma has an invisible barrier around her cabinet of antique teacups.”

Source: Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman

“Just as the archetype of the supermom--the woman who can do it all--minimizes the real needs of women, so too the archetype of the"superkid" minimizes the real needs of children. It makes it all right to treat a young child as if he or she were older.”

Ifs Needs Children Real Young Can Do Treats Young Children Archetype

Author:Arlie Russell Hochschild

“Certainly, words can be as abusive as any blow. . . . When a three-year-old yells, "You're so stupid! What a dummy!" it doesn't carry the same weight as when a mother yells those words to a child. . . . Even if you don't physically abuse young children, you can still drive them nuts with your words.”

Ifs Years Children Stills Young Mother Three Stupid Weight Abuse Blow Nuts Three Years Young Children Abusive Dummy Three Year Olds

Author:Mary Blakely

“Let every one of us cultivate, in every word that issues from our mouth, absolute truth. I say cultivate, because to very few people - as may be noticed of most young children - does truth, this rigid, literal veracity, come by nature. To many, even who love it and prize it dearly in others, it comes only after the self-control, watchfulness, and bitter experience of years.”

People Years May Children Doe Self Young Issues Mouths Absolutes Bitter Prize Self Control Literal Young Children Absolute Truth Veracity Watchfulness Bitter Experience

Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“the highest priority for any government concerned with its own future and the peace of the world community ought to be the facilities it provides for the care and nurturance of young children.”

World Children Government Care Young Community Society Ought Highest Concerned Priorities Facility Young Children

Author:Eda LeShan

“The most important difference between these early American families and our own is that early families constituted economic unitsin which all members, from young children on up, played important productive roles within the household. The prosperity of the whole family depended on how well husband, wife, and children could manage and cultivate the land. Children were essential to this family enterprise from age six or so until their twenties, when they left home.”

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“Television programming for children need not be saccharine or insipid in order to give to violence its proper balance in the scheme of things.... But as an endless diet for the sake of excitement and sensation in stories whose plots are vehicles for killing and torture and little more, it is not healthy for young children. Unfamiliar as yet with the full story of human response, they are being misled when they are offered perversion before they have fully learned what is sound.”

“I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.”

Thinking Children Young Class Middle Objects Anxiety Western Incredibles Middle Class Young Children

Author:Anne Enright

“In the fetus, or a really young child, all the different brain areas are connected to each other, diffusely. And as the brain develops, the excess connections are turned off, so you get very specialized areas. So most people have really specialized talents. What happens in creative people is this pooling doesn't take place.”

People Children Different Happens Young Brain Creative Talent Areas Connections Connected Excess Creative People Young Children Fetus Turned Off

Author:Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

“When I was a young child my folks would ask me why I was rocking back and forth and I'd answer "cause of the music in my head!"”

Children Young Asks Causes Answers Folks Ask Me Back And Forth Young Children

Author:Geoff Zanelli

“A problem of future research is to clarify how young children learn what type of social comparative information is most useful for efficacy evaluation”

Children Problem Young Social Information Type Research Young Children Evaluation Efficacy Self Efficacy

Book:Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

“At 35 years of age, I realized that my ballet career wasn't going to last for ever. As a parent of three young children, I had to start to plan my future after dance even though I dreaded about.”

Years Children Age Lasts Young Three Parent Careers Plans I Realized Ballet My Future Young Children

Author:Li Cunxin

“When I look around me, I see mostly women who are alone, left by their husbands after their kids grew up, for a younger woman, which is the most common thing, or suddenly abandoned after getting married and left with young children.”

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Author:Dacia Maraini

“Provide lots of opportunities for children's natural curiosity to manifest itself. With very young children, our role is one of supporter and guide.”

Children Young Opportunity Natural Roles Curiosity Guides Manifest Supporter Young Children Natural Curiosity

Author:Lilian Katz

“The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.”

Heart Children Made Young Religion Teach Written Atheism Fool Young Children Rogues Imbeciles

Author:Voltaire

“As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.”

Way Children Pain Young My Way Cried Young Children

Author:Dan O'Brien

“Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to provide it entirely.”

May Children Care Young Parent Poor Quality Support Greater Failing Cheaper Young Children Childcare Poor Quality Quality Care

Author:Tim Johnson

“Showing young children in these communities, that there are outlets for their feelings, that there is room in a space for their stories to be told, and that they will be applauded - and it's not about ego, it's about connection: that their pain is everybody else's pain.”

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Author:Tom Hiddleston

“I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'”

“Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding/Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind.”

Mind Children Young Crowds Ghost Dawn Fragile Highways Bleeding Young Children Eggshells

Author:Jim Morrison

“Children make you confront your own childhood. Which I think is common. Suddenly you're remembering your own parents as parents, not to mention the fact that you're confronted by them as grandparents. So you also have that terrible shock, a mirror image of your own. You suddenly seem to be so helpless in the face of young children. And you think, "How did you ever bring up me?"”

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Author:Sam Mendes

“Some of my greatest role models are the young children who ask the right questions - who will sit down and share their concerns. They're not just learning from me - they're educating me. That's what drives me.”

Children Young Asks Roles Share Models Concern Down And Role Models Young Children Right Questions

Author:Jerome Ringo

“You develop a sensibility when you're a young child. Some people say your personality is formed in the first three, four years of your life.”

People Years Firsts Children Young Three Four Personality Four Years Sensibility Young Children

Author:Joe Frank

“As extended as you know most males are like young children, you understand all the things.”

Knows Children Young Like You Males Young Children

Author:Coco Chanel

“As a young child, I thought that all pianists played everything. I mean, I thought anything on piano - any piano music, all pianists played it.”

Mean Children Young Piano Young Children Pianist Piano Music

Author:Allen Toussaint

“Female animals defending their young are notoriously ferocious and lack the playful delight in combat which characterizes the mock combats of males of the same species. There seems very little ground for claiming that the mother of young children is more peaceful, more responsible, and more thoughtful for the welfare of the human race than is her husband or brother.”

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Author:Margaret Mead

“Always take the time to show compassion for those less fortunate, and there are many. Take the time to help a young child cross the street, or to carry a bag of groceries for an elderly lady. And every now and then, look up into that big, beautiful, blue sky and admit that there are things in this world more wondrous that yourself.”

“I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.”

Knows Children Care Young Pay Quality Focus Childhood Return Resources Investment Rate Health Care Young Children High Quality Dividends Betting Early Childhood

Author:J.B. Pritzker

“I do care about the mercury contamination which this country will be experiencing because of the attempted sellout by this administration to special interests which will result in more mercury in the blood of young children in America.”

Children Country Care America Young Interest Results Blood Special Administration Special Interests Young Children Mercury Contamination I Do Care

Author:Jay Inslee

“All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly which can - and must - be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a "perfect society" on any foundation other than "Women and children first!" is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly - and no doubt will keep trying.”

Source: Time Enough for Love

“Education is a matter of the spirit. No wiser word has been said on the subject, and yet we persist in applying education from without. No one knoweth the things of the man except the spirit of man which is in him; therefore, there is no education but self-education, and as soon as a young child begins his education, he does so as a student. Our business is to give him mind stuff. Both quantity and quality are essential.”

“God is moving powerfully in and amongst children in this hour. You will see MANY children raised up to preach, heal, prophesy, move in miracles, signs and wonders. Numbers of young children will be visited by the Lord in areas of "Divine Intelligence" and many will go to the mission field at an early age.”

Children Age Moving Young Hours Numbers Wonder Lord Fields Divine Areas Miracle Raised Missions Heal Young Children Signs And Wonders

Author:Patricia King

“We cannot know the young child's personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his reactions impulsive, and interests unformed. From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.”

Knows Children Young Interest Attention Study Personality Adults Including Loyalty Reactions Adolescence Clue Hierarchy Young Children Impulsive Love And Loyalty

Book:Becoming; Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality

Source: Becoming; Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality

“Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything.”

Children Young Girl Parent Roles Identity Defined Young Children

Author:Joan Jett

“I want to have young children although my mother and father are even now young sufficient to just take care of them.”

Want Children Care Young Mother Father Take Care Sufficient Young Children Mother And Father

Author:Rita Rudner

“When you're a child - and my understanding of it is very basic - but when you're a very young child, the stimuli around you prompt your brain to form synapses. Once they're there, they're there, but if they don't form by a certain age, they're not going to.”

Ifs Children Age Form Young Certain Understanding Brain Stimulus Young Children Prompts Synapses

Author:Ron Currie Jr.

“I think there's some evidence that we're empathic by nature. There is some evidence from studies of babies and young children that they resonate with the pain of others, and there's some work by Frans de Waal that other primates also resonate with the pain of others.”

Thinking Children Pain Young Study Baby Evidence Young Children Primates

Author:Paul Bloom

“I'm not sure what gave me empathy for animals, but I do know that I have always loved animals since I was a very young child. I always felt a need to nurture and protect them. Perhaps I could see they needed that, and caring for them made me happy.”

Knows Needs Children Made Young Felt Animal Needed Protect Empathy Caring Not Sure Nurture Young Children

Author:Alison Eastwood

“I believe young children in particular enjoy witnessing the survival of youthful protagonists against terrible odds. I think it's gratifying to the reader when you give young characters that kind of agency.”

Thinking Giving Believe Kind Children Character Young I Believe Enjoy Particular Reader Terrible Survival Agency Odds Young Children Protagonists

Author:Robert Paul Weston

“There are millions of young children being educated to a very narrow-minded view of religion. And it's out of that education of large numbers of young people that you then get this extremism.”

People Children Young Views Numbers Millions Educated Extremism Large Numbers Young Children Narrow-minded

Author:Tony Blair

“When I was a really young child, I felt like I could see fairies. I was convinced there were fairies in my grandmother's garden.”

Children Young Felt Garden Convinced Fairy Grandmother My Grandmother Young Children

Author:Noel Fielding

“I'm very musically inclined. My parents were opera singers. As a young child, I could hear operas and I knew if they were sad, or if they reminded me of something, or they brought back a memory.”

Ifs Children Young Parent Memories Singers Opera Young Children Opera Singers

Author:Sandra Bullock

“I think I was always informally thinking about choice from when I was a very young child because I was born to Sikh immigrant parents, so I was constantly going back and forth between a Sikh household and an American outside world, so I was going back and forth between a very traditional Sikh home in which you had to follow the Five K's.”

Thinking World Children Home Young Choices Parent Born Five Traditional Immigrants Household Back And Forth Outside World Young Children Immigrant Parents

Author:Sheena Iyengar

“I have very vivid memories of being a young child. My mother would create dinner as for us, and when she would bake, she would leave some dough for me. I would roll the dough into little sticks while she was cooking the apple tart of whatever. I was looking through the window of the oven and flipping the light, and then my bread would come out, and it was inedible, of course.”

Children Littles Light Young Mother Courses Memories Window Cooking Sticks Dinner Bread Apples Vivid Young Children Ovens Dough Tarts Vivid Memories

Author:Eric Ripert

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