Zoe Bell 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.

One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

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

I'm the oldest of six children and I had my own first baby when I was 23. So I've always been interested in babies, and I had lots of opportunities to watch them.

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

The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

The early socialization of a child is crucial.

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.

Lot of things depend on the up bringing of a child.

Men and women have defined roles, and it's the responsibility of a parent to make sure they know which way to go; otherwise, a child would feed themselves with their feet without the correct guidance.

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

I honestly think that kids should not exercise: they should keep fit through play. The most important age is zero to seven, both for the kid and the parent - for parents, because this is the time when your kid learns how to walk, talk and other behaviour.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

And all of Laura's stuff, what they wrote originally wasn't as good and Constance wound up doing that herself. That was all her stuff, reading to the child, because she had children herself and that's what she would have done.

Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.

I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.

Middle-class families know education begins at birth.

I am seriously interested in the psychology of childhood. And I've given a lot of my life to trying to see questions of personal development, as well as the great issues of the day, from a child's point of view.

In order to raise children with equality, we must take them away from families and communally raise them.

Cultures need stable families to raise stable children.

Give me a child for the first 7 years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.

We've got to understand that the ages of zero to three are the most formative years of a person's life, the time they learn the concept of reward and punishment and develop a conscience, and that 50 percent of all learned human response is learned in the first year of life.

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