Child Attention Quotes

We say that children are bad at paying attention, but we really mean that they're bad at not paying attention - they easily get distracted by anything interesting.

When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.

Elie Wiesel says that the greatest evil in the world is not anger or hatred, but indifference. If that is true, then the opposite is also true: that the greatest love we can show our children is the attention we pay them, the time we take for them. Maybe we serve children the best simply by noticing them.

At the premieres, I always watch the audience. If a child asks to go to the bathroom, I know I've failed.

Kids have a tendency to switch off if their parents are multitasking.

When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.

The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.

The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter.

Your children can be around you all day, but if you don't spend quality time with them and you don't pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn't matter that they're just around you.

You should never take responsibility for more children than you can give attention to.

Young children especially are receiving so much of the world through their ears and their eyes, particularly if they're pre-literate. So engaging them with sound, particularly sound that stirs them emotionally because of the sequence of notes, will make them pay attention.

It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.

It is very easy to get people focused on children.