Childhood Understanding Quotes

It's paradoxical that things that are hard for people are easy for the computer, and things that are hard for the computer, any child can understand.

It's harder for me, never having brought up a child, to enter the universe of the child.

The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his understanding.

Extinction was a difficult concept for a 10-year-old.

Children are not children. They are just younger people.

Don't underestimate your kids. Don't be condescending, because they're children but they're not stupid.

There was no language barrier when it came to kids, and when it came to play.

I understood from a very young age that school was important and that my parents were making great sacrifices for me. Every morning I saw my father get up and go to a job that he didn't really like. They came to France for the same reasons all immigrants move to another country - so their kids could have a better way of life.

When we have financial struggles, kids are so much more aware of things than we want them to be.

In 2010, my kids came home telling these ridiculous stories about me they heard from school. I realized my kids didn't know my story, and they were hearing it from the goofballs at school.

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

Children have a very good idea of how to distinguish between fantasies and realities. It's just they are equally interested in exploring both.

I always tell the parents, 'You don't have to approve of your children; you just have to accept them for who they are.'

My kids make me laugh every day. And they're so supportive. As I get older, they understand those things I worried about - the guilt of being gone - in a way that's so healing for me, when they say, "Mom, we know you love what you do. We love to watch you do what you do."

When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a story which will be marketed for children, because children understand what their parents have rejected and forgotten.