David Perlmutter Quotes

It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.

Watching television requires no skills and develops no skills. That is why there is no such thing as remedial television-watching.

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.

Adults sometimes think children don't think. That's what propels them to order children around. But children do integrate thoughts and make sense of them. When I was a child, I thought about everything in the universe.

Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn't parenting. Parenting is not telling your child what to do when he or she misbehaves. Parenting is providing the conditions in which a child can realize his or her full human potential.

When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in.

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

Some children naturally have more cognitive control than others, and in all kids this essential skill is being compromised by the usual suspects: smartphones, TV, etc. But there are many ways that adults can help kids learn better cognitive control.

Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.

Children have such vibrant minds. They need to play. They need to be creative. They need to imagine. It's so important for their sense of self discovery. And it helps them learn problem-solving.

Children need to move to develop their brain; it's a natural urge. That's why boys will run after a ball and play soccer despite how many video games are available to them, and they can't help themselves from building with Lego bricks as well. They want to be creating something that's uniquely their own.

Today, children are watching more and more television, and are bombarded over and over with images and content that have the potential to dramatically influence their behavior.

Viewers can't work or play while watching television; they can't read; they can't be out on the streets, falling in love with the wrong people, learning how to quarrel and compromise with other human beings. In short, they are asocial.

The kid who can play imaginatively doesn't tend to be violent. It's the same with adults.

I, for one, believe TV is something you can do without - it colours the way you look at things and people. It's not the best exposure for children, growing up.

My daughter thinks that only her mum is on the television. Every time she sees the screen anywhere she's like mummy! Because we don't let her watch the TV.

It’s not whether children learn from television, it’s what children learn from television... because everything that children see on television is teaching them something.

If it's taught well, art really is important to kids early on. It helps children develop language and allows them to see themselves in a way that isn't right or wrong, because if they draw an animal with five legs instead of four, nobody's criticizing them for it.

I have no doubt that the digital immersion of our children will provide a rich life of entertainment and information and knowledge. My concern is that they will not learn, with their passive immersion, the joy and the effort of the third life, of thinking one's own thoughts and going beyond what is given.

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

Kids who evolve into creative adults tend to have a strong moral compass.

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.