Jean Kerr Quotes

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

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.

My children, twins who are three years old, they're awful creatures right now.

Get to know your kids' minds and how they think.

Children learn to smile from their parents.

A lot of parents today are terrified that something they say to their children might make them 'feel bad.' But, hey, if they've done something wrong, they should feel bad. Kids with a sense of responsibility, not entitlement, who know when to experience gratitude and humility, will be better at navigating the social shoals of college.

Instilling a sense of self-discipline and focus when the kids are younger makes it so much easier by the time they get into high school.

The traits the word 'childish' addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age-discriminatory word when it comes to criticizing behavior associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking.

Having kids certainly gets me to ask the question, 'Who is the adult here, and who is the kid?'

Men are but children of a larger growth.

I have a big responsibility as a father. That helps me to be more sensible.

My parents have always had this philosophy that overindulging your children is one of the worst things you could do as a parent. It's something that was hammered into my head growing up. And while my mom and dad are not professional authorities on parenting, I can confirm from experience that they had a point.

It's really hard to figure out what they need to know. And that's parenting, in general. It's hard to figure out what would benefit your kids and what would just make them needlessly frightened.

Kids grasp what you teach them, from crawling to walking, for everything they look up to their parents.

If you really want to change the world, change kids when they're two.

Everyone underestimates the maturity of kids.

That's what children do - throw food. That's not fighting. We were real men. We'd have chinned them.

All people naturally hate. My kid bites people now. I didn't teach my kid to bite anybody. Kids say mean stuff. Only through love do we get this evil out of them. Only through love and structure and discipline do they not hate. The kids that hate didn't learn anything, that's the problem.

Since civilizing children takes the better part of two decades--some twenty years of nonstop thinking, nurturing, teaching, coaxing, rewarding, forgiving, warning, punishing, sympathizing, apologizing, reminding, and repeating, not to mention deciding what to do when--I now understand that one wrong move is invariably followed by hundreds of opportunities to be wrong again.

Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.

I suppose the difference between baby people and me is that I do not consider smiling while farting 'holding up your end of a conversation.

What will a child learn sooner than a song?

One time my mom tried to send me to my room for a time-out when I was 5 or 6, and I was like, "Fine! I like my room! All my imagination and toys are in my room!" I will never forget that. And she will never forget that.