Child Expression Quotes

In Morocco, there is an insistence on authority. Children are not encouraged to speak up in front of their parents. My parents were not like this. I was the kind of girl who could tell her father, 'No, what you are saying is totally untrue, and I don't agree with you.'

If [my son] had any pain in feeling that he couldn't express to me, that would hurt.

Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.

Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.

If it's a boy, I'll put him in tutus!

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

There's a lot of spaces that care about what kids are buying. There are a lot of spaces that care about what kids are watching. But there aren't a lot of spaces that care about what kids are saying.

Unfortunately, Haiti does not have many safe environments for children to play and express themselves.

Schools insist that everything is under their purview - what your kids eat, what they believe, what they say on the playground.

Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.