Maurice Sendak Quotes

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

I understand what it's like to go to hospitals and there's no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop.

I'm not shutting myself off from kids; I'm remaining open to kids and the energy that they bring.

I really look at children as being little people and not necessarily things or people to control.

We need to do whatever it takes to get our children together and pay attention to them, because that's our future. What's in the hearts and minds of our children is what's in our future.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

It's one thing to support your kid, but if you have an interest in what your child is doing, it makes it a whole lot easier.

One of the best things about good mothers is that they remind their children to take care of themselves.

When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school.

Let's remember that our children's spirits are more important than any material things. When we do, self-esteem and love blossoms and grows more beautifully than any bed of flowers ever could.

As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid's character. You want to have human beings who learn about good character. You have to be able to see your child with clarity, see the good side and the bad side of them, and work on the bad side and make them better so they fulfill their potential.

Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child.

Every child should have a chance to feel special.

My job is to pay attention to my children's genius and allow those leanings to lead them to their future.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded

If you bungle raising your children, nothing else matters in life.

Attitudes about the rearing and education of children vary between two extremes. One, which might be labeled “authoritarian” or “coercive,” rests on an assumption that children are by nature irresponsible and lazy, and will do their schoolwork only if they are penalized for a poor performance. The opposite view might be labeled “progressive” or “democratic.” It rests on the assumption that children who are brought up with love, trust, and clear but kind leadership are eager to grow up and be like their parents, eager to explore, learn, master skills, and take on responsibility; they need guidance but not sternness or punishment.

Every day, at home, I have the astonishing and humbling opportunity - together with my wife Sophie - to nurture empathy, compassion, self-love, and a keen sense of justice in our three kids.

I will feel like a success if I raise my children to be kind and happy people.

If I feel my child is being deprived of anything that could affect her progress as a person, then I become extremely neurotic and douse the situation with as much help as humanly possible.

The thing is that love gives us a ringside seat on somebody else's flaws, so of course you're gonna spot some things that kinda need to be mentioned. But often the romantic view is to say, 'If you loved me, you wouldn't criticise me.' Actually, true love is often about trying to teach someone how to be the best version of themselves.

People warned us that if we went to them whenever they cried and refused to spank them, we would harm them irrevocably, but we decided there's simply no way to spoil a child. After all, they aren't apples.