Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they're in a good mood.
Every child is so different. Their experience growing up and their experience relating to the world has so much to do with their temperament, and their likes and their dislikes.
Kids are different from adults. They are not as developed as far as brain science, controlling impulses, and maturity, and fall prey to all kinds of pressures.
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
Kids are soft these days, period, end of the story in every respect. People coddle them too much. I'm sick of that; it's irresponsible parenting. Taking care of them is one thing, but turning little boys into little girls because you're coddling them so much, kids need to have experiences on their own.
Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.
Kids really have a lot more power than they think they have. They have the power to change the world. And they should know it.
The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
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