A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.
One should mature over 20 years.
Most child actors, once they hit 18, once they hit 21, that's it. Even teenage kids often don't make the transition.
All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.