Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As parents, we're human beings, too, but sometimes we're not as understanding as we'd like to be.
I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
Many people must have noticed the intense attention given by children to the conversation of grown-ups when they cannot possibly be understanding a word of what they hear. They are trying to get hold of words, and they often demonstrate this fact by repeating joyously some word which they have been able to grasp.
We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know.
I think the beauty of growing up is not really knowing and figuring it out for yourself.
As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.
Grownups have a tendency to talk themselves out of things, saying it will never work, but kids are fabulously optimistic.
Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
A kid never listens to what his parents tell him to do. The parents actually act as an example of what their kids themselves do.
I'm always telling my students that if they can't explain what they are doing, to their grandmothers, then they probably don't understand it themselves.