Teresita Sy-Coson Quotes

In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.

The most formative time of our lives are the years between birth and age 21, when we explore who we are and learn from those who surround us.

Children want to do what grownups do.

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

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

School is a foretaste of life.

But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.

Yes, we do mimic our parents in a lot of ways.

You don't become a fully-formed human as a female, or even a male, until you're at least 30.

But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

You know how everyone - there's this maxim that we all become our mother or we all become our parents. And, generally, I really wouldn't mind becoming my mother. I really like her, so I wouldn't mind becoming her. But I definitely need to edit her.

Children learn what they live.

If you have children, you know you're responsible for somebody. You realize you are being imitated; your belief systems and priorities have a direct influence on these children, who are like flowers in a garden.

You know how kids are. They like to do what parents do.

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

You have to grow up, and you learn things along the way.

I think there is a time in every person's life where they have to let their parents go and figure out what being a parent means for themselves.

I think you do a lot of your growing as a human being between the ages of 13 and 18.

As children, we look up to people, for better or worse, and see them as the standard for how we should act and identify ourselves.

High school is what kind of grows you into the person you are. I have great memories, good and bad, some learning experiences and some that I'll take with me the rest of my life.

I know it's hard to believe that I'm no longer the young 'Zuri' everyone has grown to love, which I truly appreciate, but like every young lady, I'm growing, I'm maturing and finding myself at 16 years old discovering the joys and pains of the world we live in.

We all have to go through our own experiences of growing up.

I am not really trying to act like my dad.

I grew up pretty fast because I had a lot of older brothers and sisters.