Understanding Children Quotes

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Most parents don’t know really their children.

Parents don't know their children at all. No one knows anyone, in fact.

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

Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children... It was a fleeting statement, one I didn't think she'd hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us. That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.

My kids get very upset with me when I leave to do film work, but they have a lot of patience with me when I leave to do environmental work.

I think a lot of our problems are because people don't listen to our children. It is not always easy. They're not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.

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

The kiss lasted forever as Otto Frank kept talking from behind me. "And my conclusion is," he said, "since I had been in very good terms with Anne, that most parents don't know really their children.

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.

Of all people, children are the ones that really understand when there's a truth there for them - an emotional truth. The characters really have to work. Children, as an audience, are very inspirational for me.

It's almost like learning to meditate to learn to hear what your kid is actually saying.

In order to be able to cooperate with a child, you have to come down to below their level in order to communicate with them. Actors are also like children.

Well, you know what grown-ups are,' said Dinah. 'They don't think the same way as we do. I expect when we grow up, we shall think like them - but let's hope we remember what it was like to think in the way children do, and understand the boys and the girls that are growing up when we're men and women.

How did the senator know that children meant happiness? Could he see into their souls? What if the moment they were out of sight, three of them jumped the fourth and began beating him up?

I happen to be very good with younger actors because I have extremely vivid memories of that time of my life, and kids are just funny.

The ability to talk to kids and reach kids is a gift I've been given, and I may as well use it.

Enjoy your children, even when they don't act the way you want them to.

I will never understand children. I never pretended to. I meet mothers all the time who make resolutions to themselves. 'I'm going to ... go out of my way to show them I am interested in them and what they do. I am going to understand my children.' These women end up making rag rugs, using blunt scissors.

This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver's seat and keeping quiet.

Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.

Children are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. Only by studying to be pleased do we understand them.

An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.

I think it's important to try to get on a kid's level when taking their photo.