Steven Pinker Quotes

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

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

I know that many people disagree with the way I disciplined my child. I also understand after meeting with a psychologist that there are other alternative ways of disciplining a child that may be more appropriate.

If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

When your little child tells a lie, do not rush at him as though the world were about to go into bankruptcy. Be honest with him. A tyrant father will have liars for his children; do you know that? A lie is born of tyranny upon the one hand and weakness upon the other, and when you rush at a poor little boy with a club in your hand, of course he lies.

And Grandmother Hall really imagines that she can raise Eleanor and her two brothers differently than these children were raised. And if she is very strict and everything is very regimented and ordered and disciplined, that they will become the perfect children who her own children did not become.

I had four children. And my youngest when we started was like, oh, gosh, 2 or a little less. And sometimes my kids would say to me, you know, how come you don't scream at those kids on television like you do us?

If you do not give your children freedom, when they grow up, they will break away from the family, and then your hearts will be broken.

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

Anyone who has brought up children knows that consistency has absolutely nothing to do with discipline.

Re raising kids: Love, without discipline, isn't.

I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere.

Young children are such nasty little beasts!

Those children who have been most chastised seldom make the best men.

We need to sort the kids out and educate them properly. After all, they are our future.

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

But I think that parents who criticise their children too much are in fact better than parents who praise their children too much.

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!

There is more in the education of children than the everlasting iteration of the word "don't!"

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

Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development , compared to children whose parents use authoritarian methods and punishment.

Often parents communicate most effectively with their children by the way they listen to and address each other. Their conversations showing gentleness and love are heard by our ever-alert, impressionable children.

A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.

A home life where it's so full of so many rigorous ideas about the way things should be, this word "should," I think is absolutely toxic to children. It hurts their personalities, it hurts their points of view in the world, it hurts their ability to be open and caring and curious. An element of allowance in a family, is, I think, really a positive thing.

The deeds of the children are a testament to the upbringing they received from their parents.