Pankaj Kapur Quotes

I just happen to believe that what's at stake in the early child's development is so vital and so important, and I think it is founded in the main, in the broad cultural sense, on the relationship between the mother and child.

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

The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.

I think much of what you learn as a kid comes before age seven.

My job is to help parents give their children the best start in life.

Any child can be developed, it depends on how you do it.

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

Children learn what they live.

It's hard to think of a 16-month child being anything other than a delight to be around.

If there were some recipe that would make all of our children really sane and civic-minded and hugely intelligent, I think we'd probably all do it. But I don't know that there is a recipe for creating that.

I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.

When what we introduce into the children's world of ideas and feelings is in line with the direction of the developmental forces of a given stage of life, we strengthen the entire developing person in a way that remains a source of strength throughout that person's life.

The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.

I'm not shutting myself off from kids; I'm remaining open to kids and the energy that they bring.

I was brought up as a normal kid.

My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing.

It's hysterical how kids have their own personalities, even at like 3 or 4. And, it's funny what they tend to like.

I don't think I have ever done anything for this age of children before, a pre-school audience. Generally speaking, we don't have vivid memories of that age and what influenced us, yet clearly they are hugely formative years and it's really important that we can create television of a high quality for that audience.

Every parent knows this moment in a child's age when he or she needs your attention in a very specific way because it's the beginning and ending of the early life of imagination. It's such a responsibility.

We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.

It's vital that we help them get the right start, nurture their development and provide for their well-being.