Child Understanding Quotes

Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.

One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They should not conceal so much from them. How well even little children understand that their parents conceal things from them, because they consider them too young to understand! Children are capable of giving advice in the most important matters.

Most parents don’t know really their children.

I don't know who had a more tiresome, wall-to-wall schedule than my father, and I know what it's like to be a kid in that situation. He was gone a lot. He needed to be. I understood it. So did my mom.

I think it's very important for children to understand that women work and that it's fulfilling, and it doesn't mean that they love you any less or care about you any less.

But the reasonableness of this command to obey parents, is clear, and easily understood by children, even when quite young.

It's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have...One pair that see through closed doors. Another in the back of her head...and, of course, the ones in front that can look at a child when he goofs up and reflect 'I understand and I love you' without so much as uttering a word.

Younger kids, they understand that things aren't so perfect with their father or with their mother.

It is much easier to condemn a child than to understand a child.

It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.

My kids have been incredibly supportive of the work that I do. They understand why it matters.

I find it hard to read people's minds, my own children's minds even harder. But it all worked out, and I was blessed with two wonderful children.

I never heard one word in Pixar about, 'Will kids get this?' I don't think it's important that they get everything. I think that it's important that they get engaged, interested.

When children feel understood, their loneliness and hurt diminish. When children are understood, their love for their parent is deepened. A parent's sympathy serves as emotional first aid for bruised feelings. When we genuinely acknowledge a child's plight and voice her disappointment, she often gathers the strength to face reality.

How well we understand the kids' world is very important, and I myself am not claiming to be the perfect dad, and from feedbacks from Jo, I understand that more time should be spent with our children.

It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is.

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising.

Kids aren't dumb - they might not get something, but they're going to figure it out.

But then as time passed, I learned the lesson that parents do early on. You fail sometimes. No matter how much you love your children, there are times you slip. There are moments you can't give, stutter, lose your temper, or simply lose face with the world, and you can't explain this to a child.

If a parent keeps on saying that, 'my kid is not understanding me at all,' he or she needs to look inside and ask, what wrong am I doing that my child is unable to understand me?

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

I'm nice with damn kids, man. Kids love me. I can bounce back and forth. I can discipline kids and I can get into the mind of a kid.

It is important for children to understand that some of the disappointment their parents feel for them is often really the parents' disappointment in their own lives.

We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child.