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The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.

— Maria Montessori

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✓Similar Perspectives

My husband and I believe that if you treat a child well and nurture his talent and physical ability, in a healthy environment, the child will succeed no matter what.

— Dominique Moceanu

We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it's not fair. Bad things happen to good people.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Being a parent is not just about how you treat your child; it's also about how you treat the other parent. If you treat that person with respect, that's fine, that's the way to go. But if you don't, you're not being the parent you could be.

— Art Alexakis

A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.

— Juvenal

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

— Billy Graham

You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff.

— Dave Eggers

I think it's important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven't had the right mentors and supporters around them - because of circumstances beyond their control.

— Q'orianka Kilcher

✗Opposing Perspectives

Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others.

— Ben Shapiro

It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.

— Sloan Wilson

Parents have no greater responsibility in this world than the bringing up of their children in the right way, and they will have no greater satisfaction as the years pass than to see those children grow in integrity and honesty and make something of their lives.

— Gordon B. Hinckley