Nadiya Hussain Quotes

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

Never negotiate with kids. They don't have life experience, and they don't have repercussions for bad decisions; they still get fed and housed.

You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff.

As an American roughly the same age as Barack Obama, I will not be ridiculed or reduced to a stereotype. I want to age appropriately.

My idea of childcare at festivals is to sit at a trestle table with an ale while the kids run around and make up their own games.

Kids can still call me Shaq, but adults should call me Dr. O'Neal.

Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I still think that.

You cannot hold a child accountable to the same standards that you hold an adult accountable to.

I think Dad didn't really treat us like children; he treated us more like little adults. We were good kids.

With teenagers, the emotions are higher and things are more dramatic. That doesn't mean adults don't also act like children in their own way.

Call me crazy, but I still believe in you grownups!

I saw my parents as model grown-ups, and their manner, their silence, informed my sense of what adulthood looked and felt like. Grown-ups behaved rationally and calmly. Grown-ups worked during the day and came home at night and sat down for drinks and passed the evening quietly.

I'm age-appropriate. I dress age-appropriately, I choose mates age-appropriately. I'm a big believer in people should act their age.

Children want to do what grownups do.

The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!

My mom didn't let me play tackle until I was in high school. She didn't want me to get hurt.

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.

In football, time and space are the same thing.

I'm not very good with conventional, prim-and-proper people who are well-behaved, grown-up.

We've been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of artists to the increasingly beautiful pictures made possible by complex technologies. But whilst we have an overwhelmingly vivid visual understanding of space, we have no sense of what space sounds like.

Grownups, as a rule, should always be ready to pay for their own meals - or else ready to graciously accept their date's insistence on paying. The point is, one doesn't sit there batting one's eyelashes, fully expecting someone else to claim the bill.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Kid Congress and the Senate, don’t scold em. They are just children that’s never grown up. They don’t like to be corrected in company.

I must have been an unsatisfactory child for grownups to deal with. I remember how incomprehensible they appeared to me at first, but not, of course, how I appeared to them.

Grown-ups yell. I don't know why, but they do.