Melissa Peterman Quotes

A child should be a child for as long as possible.

I don't know, maybe I'm overly paranoid that they're going to be spoiled, but I want to keep them going as kids for as long as I can. I want to keep them innocent and free.

Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

In fact, my son learned his first swear word from E.T. at age five. The way I look at it, E.T. stole a bit of my son's childhood.

There's this assumption that all children have the luxury of a childhood where their innocence is always respected and their main occupation is pleasant play - at the age of 18 or 21, they are then thrust into the real world and shown its uglier side, but not before.

'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't.

I think babies are a bit boring, actually. They're OK when they're older; they make you laugh. I think we all think that, really - we just don't say it.

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.

The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.

A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city's underbelly.

My mother fed me with a spoon until I was 6 years old.

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.

I don't think I was a monstrous child. I don't think I was ever allowed to be.

I used to be a dusty little child.

We're so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we're inadvertently excusing them from growing up.

My mom sees her sons as baby boys. Well, I stopped being her baby boy a long time ago.

It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.

I was a product of the late '70s and early '80s, so when we think of how we're so protective of our kids now, it's sad in a way. I guess what I'm trying to say is that we limit the development of our kids in a way.

Childhood is all about innocence. Being constantly surrounded by cameras and shutterbugs, makes children lose that innocence. It's terrifying and worrying, to say the least.

For me it is important that children be children. My parents felt exactly the same about me.

My little one's only 12 and I miss seeing him grow up and trying to form him and mould him the way I'd like him to him to turn out, which is something like his dad!

I am just indulging in watching our daughter grow, seeing her walk around the house, get up and sometimes fall on her bum, it is a beautiful sight and very heartening to see her becoming a loving and happy child.

I think when you are 17 you are very innocent.

I was brought up as a normal kid.