Child Nature Quotes

Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.

Children, they're the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world - any world. The very best of all.

I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful controls. On the contrary, I believe that hierarchy and painful controls create destructive people. And I no longer believe the liberal message that children are blank slates on which society can write anything. On the contrary, I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.

And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is simply the parents projecting their own wishes.

My kids are really easy. I often worry that they're too easy to deal with. They're really nice people.

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.