Jason Blum Quotes

I think day care is terrific. Kids get to be around other kids, and they're playing, and they're teaching each other. When I was in college, my summer job was being a preschool teacher. I loved it, and after that experience, I said I can't wait to put my kid in day care because I could see how much they loved it.

I'm the son of a pediatrician, and I do believe that the most important resource we have is our kids. And I think the most important thing for America's future is to invest more in our children.

I believe it's in the best interests of a child to be in a stable environment.

Education, day care, health care—there's not a parent in the country that doesn't have a stake in one of these issues.

Obviously, as parents, we want to do what's best for the kids.

Any child can be developed, it depends on how you do it.

My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'

Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems.

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

I'll tell you what the real problem is: These people are working under the assumption that they know better about what is good for kids, what kids need to learn to get ahead in this world.

Quite a few, actually, are involved in education. They have had the same experience Hanna and I had: when they started having their own kids, they didn't want them to have a poor educational experience; they wanted them to enjoy school.

It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.

Kids flourish if we get them to school every day.

Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.

Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.

I believe that at least 70 percent of parenting goes to the mother. In our house, I'm the one who knows about all the school stuff, helps with the homework, organizes the play dates, and remembers the birthday parties.

In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

Children are not in a position to assess risk and safety; it must be done for them, and it must be done carefully.

Middle-class families know education begins at birth.

Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.

I hope to work with kids any way possible.

My kids have grown up knowing that their mom made a big investment in making sure there was art and language instruction in school and books in the library. Hopefully, they've internalized that.

I really would like to work with kids if I was not a model.