Quotes about children

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

— Ellen Key

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

— Ann Landers

Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

— Oscar Wilde