Inspirational Quotes About Children

Inspirational Quotes About Children      A

Jacob Abbott 1803-1879
American author
A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer.

Abraham-Hicks 1948
Channeller, speaker & author
Children coming forth today have a greater capacity to deal with, the greater variety of information that is coming forth, than you did.

Children or babies learn to mimic the vibration of the adults who surround them long before they learn to mimic the words.

Abraham-Hicks 1948
Channeller, speaker & author
Give them a conscious understanding of how powerful and important and valuable and perfect they are.

Abraham-Hicks 1948
Channeller, speaker & author
This child is thinking and receiving vibrational thought from you on the day that he enters your environment. That is the reason that beliefs are transmitted so easily from parent to child.

Abraham-Hicks 1948
Channeller, speaker & author

Abraham-Hicks 1948
Channeller, speaker & author
We’re going to tell you a very big secret about children: They are freedom seeking in a way that you have not yet experienced the desire for freedom. The youth that is coming forth in this time are poignantly coming to express their ability to be free.

Adele 1988
English singer-songwriter
Everything I do, in every channel of my life, is part of a legacy that I’m making for my child. For my children, if I have more. I’m not motivated by much, certainly not money - but I’m motivated by that.

Whatever my kid wants to do or be, I will always support him, no matter what.

Muhammad Ali 1942-2016
American boxer & activist
Children make you want to start life over.

Henri Frederic Amiel 1821-1881
Swiss moral philosopher & poet
Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

Maya Angelou 1928-2014
American memoirist & poet
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep continuing needs, is good for him.

Aristotle 384BC-322BC
Ancient Greek philosopher & polymath
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Aristotle 384BC-322BC
Ancient Greek philosopher & polymath
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

Eberhard Arnold 1883-1935
German theologian
Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

Eberhard Arnold 1883-1935
German theologian
Raising children should mean helping them to become what they already are in God’s eyes.

Oren Arnold 1900-1980
American journalist & author

Christmas gift suggestions:
To your enemy… Forgiveness
To an opponent… Tolerance
To a friend… Your Heart
To a customer… Service
To all… Charity
To every child… A Good Example
To yourself… Respect

David Attenborough 1926
British broadcaster & biologist
Education is not a matter of getting facts and sowing them within brains, but that it is an attitude of mind that you teach children to find out for themselves.

The great heroes and heroines of our society are of course the teachers, and in particular the teachers of kids in their first years. Once a child has been shown what the natural world is, it will live with them forever.

Inspirational Quotes About Children       B

Russell Baker
Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you or they may do it.

James Baldwin 1924-1987
American writer & civil rights activist
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

P. T. Barnum 1810-1891
American showman, businessman & politician
There is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

Bruce Barton 1886-1967
American author & politician
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

David Beckham 1975
English footballer
When you have kids you grow up. I have just started realising it now.. It changes the world, having children.

Clay P. Bedford
You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.

Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887
American congregationalist clergyman
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887
American congregationalist clergyman
That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.

Joseph Z. Bell
Children are the flowers of our future.

Arlene Benedict
To a child’s ear, ‘Mother’ is magic in any language.

Polly Berrien Berends 1939-2017
American author, educator & activist
A sense of worthiness is a child’s most important need.

The child does not begin to fall until she becomes seriously interested in walking, until she actually begins walking. Falling is thus more an indication of learning than a sign of failure.

The gain is not the having of children, it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.

Bruno Bettelheim 1903-1990
Austrian psychologist
The question for the child is not ‘Do I want to be good?’ but, ‘Whom do I want to be like?’

Bible
Christian scriptures book
Let the children come to me; do not try to stop them; for the kingdom of Heaven belongs to such as these.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Black Elk 1863-1950
Native American of Oglala Lakota tribe
Grown men can learn from very little children, for the hearts of the little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

W. E. B. Du Bois 1868-1963
American sociologist, historian & activist
Children learn more from what you are, than what you teach.

Erma Bombeck 1927-1996
American humorist & author
Children make your life important.

Napoleon Bonaparte 1769–1821
French Emperor & military leader
The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother.

Carol Bowman 1950
American author, lecturer & therapist
Children who remember their past lives offer the most compelling evidence yet for reincarnation.

Robert Brault
American author & philosopher
Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker.. Until they figure it out for themselves.

Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit.

Robert Brault
American author & philosopher
In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy too.

The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher.

The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives.

There is an instinct in a woman to love most of her own child and an instinct to make any child who needs love, her own.

Why explain miracles to your kids, when you can just have them plant a garden?

H. Jackson Brown Jr 1940-2021
American author
Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re asleep.

Pam Brown 1948
Australian poet
Always smile back at little children. To ignore them is to destroy their belief that the world is good.

A teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved - and therefore he lives.

A teddy bear is your childhood wrapped up in faded yellow fur, and as such, he commands affection long after he is outgrown.

However time or circumstances may come between mother and her child, their lives are interwoven forever.

Emilie Buchwald 1935
Austrian editor & author
Children are made readers in the laps of their parents.

Edmund Burke 1729-1797
Irish statesman & philosopher
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Lorna Byrne 1953
Irish author
Children are our future, and the only way for the world to evolve, as I have been shown it should be, is for each generation to be more loving and compassionate than the one before. This is only possible if we support the children around us, and protect and encourage them so that they don’t need to lock their love away.

Inspirational Quotes About Children       C

Mary Calderone 1904-1998
American physician & author
Our children are not going to be just ‘our children’ - they are going to be other people’s husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.

Charles Stuart Calverley 1831-1884
English poet
I love to gaze upon a child.. A young bud bursting into blossom.

George Carlin 1937-2008
American stand-up comedian & social critic
Don’t just teach your children to read. Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881
Scottish historian & essayist
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Andrew Carnegie 1835-1919
Scottish-American industrialist & philanthropist
Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washer-woman, cook, teacher, angel and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar and friend. No servants to come between them. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.

Rachel Carson 1907-1964
American marine biologist & writer
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.

Pablo Casais 1876-1973
Spanish cellist & conductor
The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world, there hasn’t been, and until the end of the world, there will not be, another child like him.

Mary Ellen Chase 1887-1973
American educator & author
There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1860-1904
Russian playwright & writer
Dear sweet unforgettable childhood.

Chinonye J. Chidolue
Creative writer, actor & filmmaker
Like stars are to the sky, so are the children to our world. They deserve to shine.

Lydia Maria Child 1802-1880
American abolitionist, activist & journalist
In early childhood, you lay the foundation of poverty or riches, in the habits you give your children. Teach them to save everything, not for their own use, for that would make them selfish, but for some use. Teach them to share everything with their playmates; but never allow them to destroy anything.

Doc Childre 1945
American author & founder of Heartmath Institute
An Aware parent loves all children he or she meets and interacts with.. For you are a caretaker for those moments in time.

Agatha Christie 1890-1976
English author
A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

Agatha Christie 1890-1976
English author
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

Marcus Tullius Cicero 106BC-43BC
Italian poet, philosopher & orator
What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.

Crystal DeLarm Clymer
When your child is talking, turn the world off.

Paulo Coelho 1947
Brazilian author
A child can teach an adult three things… to be happy for no reason. To always be busy with something. And to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

Colonial Child’s Prayer

God bless everybody I love.
God bless everybody who loves me.
God bless everybody who loves everybody I love.
And everybody who loves everybody who loves me.

Marcelene Cox
The illusions of childhood are necessary experiences; a child should not be denied a balloon because an adult knows sooner or later it will burst.

Monta Crane
There are three ways to get something done… Do it yourself. Employ someone to do it for you. Or, forbid your children from doing it.

Michael Masser 1941-2015  &  Linda Creed 1948-1986
American songwriters


I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way.
Show them all the beauty they possess inside,
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier,
Let the children’s laughter remind us how we used to be.

Inspirational Quotes About Children       D

Roald Dahl 1916-1990
British author
Children are not so serious as grown-ups and love to laugh. (Matilda)

I think what’s important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behaviour matters and how you treat other people matters.

Matt Damon 1970
American actor & film producer
I think what’s important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behaviour matters and how you treat other people matters.

If I had a bucket list, I’d say raising my four daughters to be strong, good women would be number one.

Esther Davis-Thompson
Author
Our society claims to have the answers to our parenting problems ensconced in the prevalent disciplines and ideologies of psychology, sociology, religion, and medicine. All of these fall short to the extent they overlook the presence of the Spirit of God uniquely expressed in each of us.

We must start walking out a knowing that we are candles lit from the Spirit for the purpose of illuminating a path.. Walking before our children. And, yes, they will, eventually, follow.

Robertson Davies 1913-1995
Canadian author, playwright & journalist
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Mark Desaux
If your life inspires just one child.. Your life has been a success.

Zooey Deschanel 1980
American actress
I think that it’s our responsibility to create a world in which girls can grow up and not have to limit their dreams or possibilities.

Princess Diana 1961-1997
British royal family
Hugs can do great amounts of good.. Especially for children.

Kate DiCamillo 1964
American author
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

Rosaleen Dickson
Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children and the one most important of all the things we can give them is unconditional love. Not love that depends on anything at all, except that they are our children.

Walt Disney 1901–1966
American animator & film producer
Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children.

Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821-1881
Russian novelist, essayist & journalist
The Soul is healed by being with children.

Frederick Douglas 1818-1895
American social reformer, orator & writer
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Wayne Dyer 1940-2015
American author & motivational speaker
Let them follow their own compass.

Wayne Dyer 1940-2015
American author & motivational speaker
Once you see a child’s self-image begin to improve, you will see significant gains in achievement areas, but even more important, you will see a child who is beginning to enjoy life more.

Your children are Spiritual Beings who come through you, not for you.

Wayne Dyer 1940-2015
American author & motivational speaker
Your children will see what you’re all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Inspirational Quotes About Children      E

Marion Wright Edelman 1939
American activist for civil & children’s rights
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

Albert Einstein 1879-1955
German-American scientist
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Albert Einstein 1879-1955
German-American scientist
Play is the highest form of research.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882
American essayist & lecturer
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Ignacio Estrada 1946-2024
American teacher & ventriloquist
If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.

Euripides 480BC-406BC
Ancient Greek tragedian
All men know their children mean more than life.

Noble fathers have noble children.

Richard Paul Evans 1962
American author
The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.

Inspirational Quotes About Children     F

Paula Fox 1923-2017
American author
When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child’s hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an Awakener.

Robert Fulghum 1937
American author & Unitarian Universalist minister
Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Buckminster Fuller 1895-1983
American architect, systems theorist & writer
I would like to know why it is that we have disregarded all children’s significantly spontaneous and comprehensive curiosity. Nothing seems to be more prominent about human life that its wanting to understand all and put everything together.

Inspirational Quotes About Children     G

Diana Gabaldon 1952
American author
Babies are soft. Anyone looking at them can see the tender, fragile skin and know it for the rose-leaf softness that invites a finger’s touch.

But when you live with them and love them, you feel the softness going inward, the round-cheeked flesh wobbly as custard, the boneless splay of tiny hands. Their joints are melted rubber, and even when you kiss them hard, in the passion of loving their existence, your lips sink down and seem never to find bone. Holding them against you, they melt and mold, as though they might at any moment flow back into your body.

But from the very start, there is that small streak of steel within each child. That thing that says ‘I am,’ and forms the core of personality.

In the second year, the bone hardens and the child stands upright, skull wide and solid, a helmet protecting the softness within. And ‘I am’ grows, too. Looking at them, you can almost see it, sturdy as heartwood, glowing through the translucent flesh.

The bones of the face emerge at six, and the soul within is fixed at seven. The process of encapsulation goes on, to reach its peak in the glossy shell of adolescence, when all softness then is hidden under the nacreous layers of the multiple new personalities that teenagers try on to guard themselves.

In the next years, the hardening spreads from the centre, as one finds and fixes the facets of the soul, until ‘I am’ is set, delicate and detailed as an insect in amber.

Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948
Indian leader, activist & lawyer
If you want real peace in the world, start with children.

The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.

Chief Dan George 1899-1981
Native American Chief of Tsleil-Waututh tribe
If the very old will remember, the very young will listen.

The only thing necessary for tranquillity in the world is that every child grows up happy.

Papiha Ghosh
In my Soul, I am still that small child who did not care about anything else but the beautiful colours of the rainbow.

Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931
Lebanese-American writer & poet
Your children are not your children, they are the sons and daughters of life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies, but not their Soul, for their Soul belongs in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The Archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite and He bends you with His might, that His arrows may go swift and far. Let your bending in the Archer’s hand be for gladness, for even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.

Haim Ginott 1922-1973
Child psychologist, teacher & educator
Children are like wet cement.. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Haim Ginott 1922-1973
Child psychologist, teacher & educator
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

Rudolph Giuliani 1944
American politician & Mayor of New York
What children need most are the essentials that Grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humour, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832
German poet, playwright & novelist
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But, if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

It’s not that age brings childhood back again, age merely shows what children we remain.

Emma Goldman 1869-1940
Lithuanian political activist & writer
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

Richelle E. Goodrich
American author
A mother is a child’s first looking glass into the world.

Amy Grant 1960
American singer-songwriter
I love being with my children. They’re fascinating people.

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet
Every child would benefit from planting a tree when they are small,
Gaining more than just green fingers through the years as both grow tall

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet

Expressing words of Love to their children
Cuddling and kissing even into adulthood
It’s beautiful to see and know
The role of father has changed for the good

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet

From you my child I would learn so much
About unconditional Love
You came into my life to teach me
As an Angel sent from up above

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet

My most blessed role of all
Would bring bliss so pure and true
Becoming a mother woke me up
Unconditional Love coming through

I place this role as my priority
And was blessed with two more
Angels added to our family unit
To Love, cherish and to adore

I am a mother to three children
But each see a different kind
Inner truths and insecurities
Develop and influence the mind

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet
Teach only Love to all the children you meet
The future of our world lies always at their feet

quote from poem:  Teach Only Love

The greatest Christmasses all were
The ones with my little children
Excitement, traditions, decorations, gifts
Family togetherness, all having fun

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet

The greatest gift we can give
To our children is to live
Always guided by our Light
Our inner knowing shining bright

Giving it strength by positive thought
It is by example children are taught
Be their map for a life of joy
For every precious girl and boy

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet

The greatest treasures bestowed on me
Worth more than diamonds and gold
Were the lives of my precious children
Still my treasures even as we grow old.

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet

The serenity of a sleeping child
Even if in the daytime they tend to run wild
A newborn baby, so complete yet so small
You can’t help but wonder, the miracle of it all

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet

These children are here to teach us
Voluntarily withdrawing with no fuss
They shout and cry, with no words to say
“There has to be a better way!”

We are all brothers and sisters of Earth
One race of humanity at our birth
United, as One, we can be
Compassionate to ALL our Earth family

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet

Traveling on buses with my young grandchildren
All so eager to explore and just simply have fun
Flooding back in my mind fond memories I’d recall
Of my children, the same when they were so small

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet

Young siblings at Christmas share the joys
Of the escalating excitement thinking of toys
They might receive if Santa thinks they’ve been good
Talking into the night, how they wish he would

Childhood Christmas days spent with sister or brother
Amasses laughter and sharing to re-discover
In later years when in family get-togethers they meet
And to another generation their stories repeat

Graham Greene 1904-1991
English writer & journalist
There is always one moment in childhood with the door opens and lets the future in.

Edgar A. Guest 1881-1959
American poet
Children… they string our joys, like jewels bright, upon the thread of years.

Edgar A. Guest 1881-1959
American poet
Spring’s greatest joy beyond a doubt is when it brings the children out.

Inspirational Quotes About Children      H

Alex Haley 1921-1992
American writer & author
Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.

Brooke Hampton
Author
As mamas, papas, grandparents, teachers and caregivers we have a responsibility to protect these little Earth warriors. It’s our job to protect and nurture their love, their innocence, their spirits, their imagination, their gifts, their health, and wellbeing, their spirituality, their confidence, their character, their freedom of thought, their instincts, their wildness, and their magic! There is nothing we can do in this lifetime that will compare to the importance of this work. These little ones are our future. Guard them well!

Brooke Hampton
Author
Speak to them [children] as if you were on stage in front of thousands of people. Respond to them with the respect they deserve. They are our future. Guard your tongue. Be brave enough to try harder. Let’s create a childhood that our children won’t have to recover from.

Speak to your children as if they are the wisest, kindest, most beautiful and magical humans on Earth, for what they believe is what they will become.

Thich Nhat Hanh 1926-2022
Vietnamese monk & peace activist
Take the hand of your child and invite her to go out and sit with you on the grass. The two of you may want to contemplate the green grass, the little flowers that grow among the grasses, and the sky. Breathing and smiling together – that is peace education. If we know how to appreciate these beautiful things, we will not have to search for anything else. Peace is available in every moment, in every breath, in every step.

Neil Patrick Harris 1973
American actor, singer, writer & producer
Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be.

Louise Hart
The best thing to spend on your children is time.

Katherine Butler Hathaway 1890-1942
American author
Everybody knows that a good mother gives her children a feeling of trust and stability. Somehow even her clothes feel different to her children’s hands from anybody else’s clothes. Only to touch her skirt or her sleeve makes a troubled child feel better.

Max Heindel 1865-1919
American author, Christian occultist & astrologer
No creature under Heaven is more imitative than a little child, and its conduct in after years will depend largely upon the example set by its parents during its early life. It is no use to tell the child “not to mind.” It has no mind wherewith to discriminate, but follows its natural tendency, as water flows down a hill, when it imitates. Therefore it behoves every parent to remember from morning till night that watchful eyes are upon him all the time, waiting but for him to act in order to follow his example.

The more music is incorporated into a child’s daily life, the stronger and healthier will be its body in future years.

Jim Henson 1936-1990
American puppeteer, actor & filmmaker
The attitude that you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from, more than what you tell them. They don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

Heraclitus 535BC-475BC
Ancient Greek philosopher
Time is a game.. Played beautifully by children.

Florence Hoatson 1881-1964
English poet, hymnwriter

God whose name is Love
Happy children we
Listen to the hymn
That we sing to Thee

Hands together, softly so
Little eyes shut tight
Father, just before we go
Hear our prayer tonight

We are all Thy children here
This is what we pray
Keep us when the dark is near
And through every day

Eric Hoffer 1902-1983
American philosopher & author
Children are the keys of paradise.

Gary Holland
Every child is a deliberate, passionate creation of God. If you doubt that, just look into their eyes. You will find a gentle little spirit who hungers for life and for your love.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr 1841-1935
American jurist
Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.

John Caldwell Holt 1923-1985
American author, educator & proponent of homeschooling
A child whose life is full of the threat and fear of punishment is locked into babyhood. There is no way for him to grow up, to learn to take responsibility for his life and acts. Most important of all, we should not assume that having to yield to the threat of our superior force is good for the child’s character. It is never good for anyone’s character.

By nature people are learning animals. Birds fly; fish swim; humans think and learn. Therefore, we do not need to motivate children into learning by wheedling, bribing, or bullying. We do not need to keep picking away at their minds to make sure they are learning. What we need to do – and all we need to do – is to give children as much help and guidance as they need and ask for, listen respectfully when they feel like talking, and then get out of the way. We can trust them to do the rest.

Children are born passionately eager to make as much sense as they can of things around them... Children observe, they wonder, they speculate, and they ask themselves questions… If we attempt to control, manipulate, or divert this process, we disturb it. If we continue this long enough, the process stops. The independent scientist in the child disappears.

Gears, twigs, leaves, little children love the world. That is why they are so good at learning about it. For it is love, not tricks and techniques of thought, that lies at the heart of all true learning. Can we bring ourselves to let children learn and grow through that love?

If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of saying or doing anything to a child that you would not do to another adult, whose good opinion and affection you valued.

The child is curious. He wants to make sense out of things, find out how things work, gain competence and control over himself and his environment, and do what he can see other people doing. He is open, perceptive and experimental. He does not merely observe the world around him. He does not shut himself off from the strange, complicated world around him, but tastes it, touches it, hefts it, bends it, breaks it.

To find out how reality works, he works on it. He is bold. He is not afraid of making mistakes. And he is patient. He can tolerate an extraordinary amount of uncertainty, confusion, ignorance, and suspense. .. School is not a place that gives much time, or opportunity, or reward, for this kind of thinking and learning.

We ask children to do for most of a day what few adults are able to do for even an hour. How many of us, attending, say, a lecture that doesn’t interest us, can keep our minds from wandering? Hardly any.

What is lovely about children is that they can make such a production, such a big deal, out of everything, or nothing. All that energy and foolishness, all that curiosity, questions, talk, all those fierce passions, inconsolable sorrows, immoderate joys, seem to many a nuisance to be endured, if not a disease to be cured. To me they are a national asset, a treasure beyond price.

What is most important and valuable about the home as a base for children’s growth into the world is not that it is a better school than the schools, but that it isn’t school at all.

When we make a child afraid, we stop learning dead in its tracks.

Nicola Horlick 1960
British investment fund manager
When I pick up one of my children and cuddle them, all the strain and stress of life temporarily disappears. There is nothing more wonderful than motherhood and no one will ever love you as much as a small child.

Joe Houldsworth
The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.

Elbert Hubbard 1856-1915
American writer, publisher & philosopher
Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

Kate Hudson 1979
American actress & singer
Your children teach you so much. It’s a real mirror of yourself.

Victor Hugo 1802-1885
French poet, novelist & dramatist
If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.

Aldous Huxley 1894-1963
English author, poet & philosopher
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

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