Laetitia Casta Quotes

Working with children is a whole other ball game. They're like little animals. You have to keep the camera turned on them all the time. Sometimes it takes a 41-minute take to get one sentence out in a believable way.

There's no secret to working with kids. They either charm you and you can work with them, or they don't charm you and you feel you're stuck with them.

It's tough to work with kids. Kids are animals!

I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard; we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids.

Don't be guilty of ignoring symptoms of rebellion when your children are small. Don't simply excuse it as a stage they are going through and think that they will grow out of it. If you ignore it when they are small, you won't be able to handle it when they get older and the rebellion has had time to develop into a strong force.

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.

I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.

I teach kids that want to be tough that their fists are not the way.

I hope that whenever my daughter has a negative experience, I'm there to talk about it and remind her how we feel when it's done to her so that she doesn't do it to others.

Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.

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

I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life. My way of dealing with frustration is to shut down and to think and speak logically.

You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.

Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.

If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

I loved working with kids because the energy is great.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.

When two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I just let it go because I can see a future where they're going to be dressed, and they're going to be at school. So I kind of let stuff go sometimes.

I know a lot of kids that if you don't know how to deal with them, you lose them. They don't come ready-made.

I've worked a lot with kids before. They can be very, very difficult, just because they're kids.

One thing I've learned is that preschool teachers really have seen it all - and they can be a wealth of information! If you have any questions about a certain behavioral hurdle with your child or if you have a question about a certain age or phase, ask them!

Parenting makes us better in so many regards.

I truly enjoy working with kids because they teach me something and it allows me to get in touch with few things that are a bit personal to me.