children's behavior Quotes

The episodic, reactive, almost frantic pace of what is broadcast makes children feel and act frantic and shortens their attention spans and their patience for activities that take time and problems that don't yield immediate solutions.

What I've found in my life with our children is that often you can give them advice and tell them to eat the right things, stay in shape and wear sunscreen, and they don't really want to listen. But then they hear it from someone else, and they do listen.

The funny thing about children is that, whichever room we're in, that's where they'll be. If I'm in the bath, they'll want to be in there too, playing with the toothbrush pot or brushing my hair.

Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.

You can do anything with children if you only play with them.

Don't write naughty words on the wall if you can't spell!

I never try to sit down with a moral because kids smell that and run.

Children have an uncanny way of living up - or down - to what is expected of them.

Our kids are actually doing what we told them to do when they sit in front of that TV all day or in front of that computer game all day. The society is telling kids unconsciously that nature's in the past. It really doesn't count anymore, that the future is in electronics, and besides, the bogeyman is in the woods.

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles ‘em. No... you had the right answer this afternoon, but the wrong reasons. Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it. Hotheadedness isn’t.

Watch what you say and do because little eyes are watching you.

We have recognized that the world is changing. How your children are behaving, how their friends are behaving. What they consume and what they watch.

Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.

If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around.

I am well pleased with what I hear of you: The principal Satisfaction I can expect in Life, in future will be in your good Behavior and that of my other Children. My Hopes from all of you are very agreable. God grant, I may not be disappointed.

A gift isn't a gift unless it has meaning. Just giving things to people, especially children, create the expectation of more things.

I'd like to know why sociologists can't decide whether movie sex and violence has any effect on children, but there's a universal consensus that even a glimpse of a Camel will force children to become lifelong smokers.

I think that discipline is so much of an important part of being a parent. Because it's very, very important to teach your children to take responsibility for their actions.

These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales.

I never told my kids, 'You've got to work hard.' I just worked hard, and they followed my example.

But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes.

The problems with kids having short attention spans is driven by entertainment, reset buttons on games, games having to do with getting somewhere and heads blowing up. Everything is 'cut to the chase, cut to the chase.'

It's funny. I don't really think of us as TV presenters. I think of TV presenters as responsible people who show children what to do with empty fairy liquid bottles. Not a couple of blokes who don't mind telling kids to shut up.

Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.