Margaret Mead Quotes

There's no question that we have great value on the sanctity of the family, and there are a lot of competing visions about exactly how we teach a set of values and we teach skills to our children, especially in the early years when they're really forming their personalities, their personas, really.

If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.

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

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

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself.

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.

Children learn what they live.

There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence.

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.

When kids are young, before the age of ten, there is a critical window of opportunity when their habits and motivations can be influenced.

Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and nothing about nature or faith, about anything, is that not a form of child abuse?

If there were some recipe that would make all of our children really sane and civic-minded and hugely intelligent, I think we'd probably all do it. But I don't know that there is a recipe for creating that.

We need to sort the kids out and educate them properly. After all, they are our future.

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

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

The French talk about education, the education of their children. They don't talk about raising kids. They talk about education. And that has nothing to do with school. It's this kind of broad description of how you raise children and what you teach them.

Parents are teachers as much as caregivers, and our children learn to navigate life's challenges by watching us. Kids can get a road map for how to handle painful emotions.

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!

If you look at the beginning of children's entertainment in literature, the first books that were written for kids were cautionary tales. They were books that were there to teach kids about growing up and how to live life.

It's hysterical how kids have their own personalities, even at like 3 or 4. And, it's funny what they tend to like.

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

I believe that children have to grow up as all-round personalities, but it cannot be at the cost of academics.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.