Childhood Stages Quotes

I think babies are a bit boring, actually. They're OK when they're older; they make you laugh. I think we all think that, really - we just don't say it.

When people talk about wanting to have children someday, what they really mean is that they want babies. Nobody wants an angry adolescent. Nobody wants an obnoxious seven-year-old trying to wear out dirty words they just learned in school that day. What they really want is cute, adorable babies who love you and need you. The bad stuff is just the price you agree to pay for having the good stuff.

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

My children did not go through a stage of being rude to their parents. I'm sorry if that sounds incredible.

How do you know they're growing up? Well, the bite marks are higher.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person.

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

If you raise children, you forget what age they are. I mean you don't literally forget, but you treat a 13-year-old like she's 10 and there's a big difference in those three years and they can't stand it. They want to be treated like they're 17 when they're 13. And sometimes you can't help thinking of them as if they were 10 or 10 months old because it's all so recent. So we do overprotect sometimes.

It's the sweetest thing to be a parent of a daughter. When they hit their twenties, they become these lovebugs that come back. It's just so sweet.

All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.

Everyone knows that at the age of 11-12, children have a marked impulse to form themselves into groups and that the respect paid to the rules and regulations of their play constitutes an important feature of this social life.

A three-year-old is not half a six-year-old.

I'm not much of a baby freak - I like them when they're older.

Children at certain ages have distinct actions, and boys at certain ages have a particular way of acting too.

I think people sometimes get stressed out when they have a newborn and an infant. Try to enjoy it because the time is so fleeting, and soon enough, they'll be running around and be more independent. You're going to miss that time.

There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding.

When you are 8 or 9, you should have a childhood. You should have adolescence. You should go through everything in a normal way.