Ezra Miller Quotes

Curiosity is missing. Curiosity in particular is something that the system, not only the educational system but, the parental... what you do as a parent at home.

Educating a child won't be difficult if you get through to the parent.

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.

Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.

99.9% of being a good parent is just being present with your child. On the flipside of that, 100% of being happy is just being present.

The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house.

There is one thing you and I as parents cannot do, not do we want to do if we really think about it, and that's control our children's will--that spirit that lets them be themselves apart from you and me. They are not ours to possess, control, manipulate, or even to make mind.

For me, as much about being a parent as it is about being a child.

The children of childish parents age quickly.

There is but one way to eliminate juvenile delinquency - that is by providing each child in America with competent parents.

I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.

It's important for survival that children have their own experiences, the kind they learn from. The kind their parents arrange for are not as useful. Good parents are the hardest to get rid of.

Parents, whether or not we believe in a deity, know that to witness a child's mind searching for meaning is a miracle.

Every child is so helpless - just to survive he has to be political, he has to accept whatsoever the parents are saying.

Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.

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

All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent

If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

Obviously, you want to teach your child between right and wrong, respect and being kind to others, whether it's their sisters or parents. You try to teach them by example, talk to them and explain certain situations. But there's also a time to put them in time out or let them know they've made a mistake and try to learn from it.

The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.

there is such a rebound from parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by the parent only to avoid the prescribed path.

I am only as good as my children are.

My goal is not to shove information into your head. It's to find ways to reignite the curiosity that we all had as children for the natural world. You don't have to tell a child to explore the backyard.

There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.