Interacting with Kids Quotes

I can be around kids if I need to be.

I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.

Some people never learn how to talk to kids. They turn up the volume and enunciate with extra care, as if talking to a partially deaf immigrant. They sound as if they're reading lines somebody else wrote for them, or as if what they're saying is really for the benefit of other adults listening and not just for the child. Kids sense that and turn off.

I didn't know if I'd be good with children. Actually talking with them, I mean. But I am good with them.

I love performing for kids, but you can't play down to them, of course. Then it would be 'Captain Kangaroo.'

I wanted to be a clown when I was a kid, so I love interacting and goofing around with kids.

When I was studying, I was part of a children's entertainment company, and I'd have to dress up as a pirate or fairy and go to corporate parties and entertain the children. I will never, ever do that again. The worst was the demanding children - I've never been so exhausted doing a job as that one.

Some people are good with children. Others are not. It is a gift. You either have it, or you don't. My father didn't.