Arabella Weir Quotes

Kids are wandering around the streets today that will become tomorrow's criminals that were yesterday's heroes.

I got a way to get through to kids. I try to take that and use that to my advantage. If we work on the kids right now, I'm telling you, they'll be making less mistakes, the jails will be gettin' less full. It's all about what we do with the kids.

When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.

You know how kids are. They like to do what parents do.

Only recently - about five minutes ago, relative to the long-running human comedy - have parents been driving themselves to distraction by taking too seriously the idea that 'as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.'

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

Children always tend to imitate everything that we are doing in front of them.

Despite the efforts of some parents, children still tend to act out the traditional sex roles of our culture. The child's peer group may have more of an influence over this than the parents.

There is but one way to eliminate juvenile delinquency - that is by providing each child in America with competent parents.

For example, parents who talk a lot to their children have kids with better language skills, parents who spank have children who grow up to be violent, parents who are neither too authoritarian or too lenient have children who are well-adjusted, and so on.

Lawless schools produce lawless children.

In places where people read hardcover books and eat sushi, they're not signing a five-year-old up to tackle another five-year-old.

If you really want to change the world, change kids when they're two.

From a very young age, parents are pushing their boys to achieve in a way they don't always do for girls.

Children need directing and teaching what is right in a kind, affectionate manner. How often we see parents demand obedience, good behavior, kind words, pleasant looks, a sweet voice and a bright eye from a child or children when they themselves are full of bitterness and scolding! How inconsistent and unreasonable this is!

The mother's and father's attitudes toward the child correspond to the child's own needs.... Mother has the function of making himsecure in life, father has the function of teaching him, guiding him to cope with those problems with which the particular society the child has been born into confronts him.

I didn't want to audition the kids so much; I just wanted to talk to them because I like seeing how they are because their mothers usually mess them up with practice. So, I'd rather talk to them and see how they respond. I just throw things at them and see how they can hit the ball back, and Saniyya Sidney was good.

Whatever the parents are doing, the kids will follow suit.

The first years of a child's life are too important for a child's future - their development, earnings, behavior, and health - for anyone to ignore.

As the family goes, so go the children.

Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

Little kids are that way; they feel if their parents aren't watching what they do then what they do isn't real.

Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.

The footsteps a child follows are most likely to be the ones his parents thought they covered up.

It's shocking how sophisticated little kids can be, when it comes to behaving in a professional manner, and that's a credit to their parents.