Albert Bandura Quotes

The early socialization of a child is crucial.

Children who play regularly with their peers are most likely to achieve the highest levels of adjustment as adults.

Children need close friends to help them grow up, to discover things about themselves and about life. They also need close friends to keep them sane

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

We need to do teacher training to educate them about what temperament means. Shyness is painful and you want to help a child with shyness - but the underlying temperament of being a careful, sensitive person is to be honoured, valued and respected.

When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in.

If children live with hostility, they learn to fight. If they live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive. If they live with criticism, they learn to condemn.

I was raised with adults. I skipped knowing how to interact as a normal teenage person.

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

I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!

When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.

Slobodan Milosevic was just as smart as a five-year-old. Five-year-olds have an uncanny way of getting into your psyche, your self-esteem.

Imaginary friends are one of the weirder forms of pretend play in childhood. But the research shows that imaginary friends actually help children understand the other people around them and imagine all the many ways that people could be.

Through their play Barbara imagined their lives as adults. They used the dolls to reflect the adult world around them. They would sit and carry on conversations, making the dolls real people.

Other species help children develop empathy.

A huge part of what a kid learns when they're growing up is social and emotional development. As adults, we take it for granted that other people have emotions that are different from ours, and we can identify what they are, but those are skills that children have to learn.

Children learn to smile from their parents.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

It's endless, the amount of things that music touches on that can help kids grow that are very, very practical.

Woory about building a kid who is good, not a kid with good self-esteem.

Abundant research has shown that children raised by two parents in an ongoing union are more likely to develop the self-discipline and self-confidence that make for success in life …

I think we are doing a bad job of helping our kids understand that they have huge resiliency.

I see it as this: I send my kids to school not only to learn how to read and write and do math, but also to develop socially. So if there's a negative interaction between my child and another child, what I want to know is, how was it handled, what lessons came out of it, and, of course, is my child okay?

It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.

I read somewhere that your voice towards your children becomes their inner monologue. That was so interesting to me, and I think that pertains to 'Better Things' as well.