Art Linkletter Quotes

In order to be able to cooperate with a child, you have to come down to below their level in order to communicate with them. Actors are also like children.

He was one of those quite rare adults who communicate with small children fairly well and who love them all impartially--not in a sugary way but in a businesslike fashion that may sometimes entail a hug, in the same way that closing a big business deal may call for a handshake.

You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship.

Generally I find that kids ask better questions than you get with adults. Something that kids will do a lot is, they're so nervous, and they're not really paying attention, so they'll ask the same question someone just asked. And you're trying to be nice and not embarrass them any more than they are already.

Get to know your kids' minds and how they think.

Other species help children develop empathy.

Children learn to smile from their parents.

It's tough to work with kids. Kids are animals!

Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education!

Kids have a way of letting you know if they like something or not. If a child of five says she doesn't like something, it means there is a problem.

Children who are respected learn respect. Children who are cared for learn to care for those weaker than themselves. Children who are loved for what they are cannot learn intolerance. In an environment such as this, they will develop their own ideals, which can be nothing other than humane, since they grew out of the experience of love.

The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child himself.

It should not be a child's only goal to become the best player in the world. That would be a bad, a harmful attitude.

Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.

Model the qualities that you want your children to show to each other.

Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers; they laugh and weep easily, are excessive in their joys and sorrows, and that about the most trifling objects; they bear no pain, but like to inflict it on others; already they are men.

Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.

What children can do with the assistance of others might be in some sense even more indicative of their mental development than what they can do alone

It's difficult because you can't generalise about these things. But in essence, you deal with children as simply as you deal with actors - you have to show a certain sort of respect. You deal with them lovingly and protect them, but if you protect them enough then they're open to engage with what you want to do with them.

The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the human personality of the young being and respect it.

The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.

If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others.

How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children?

It is much easier to condemn a child than to understand a child.

Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.