Child Behavior Quotes

If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is - and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

There is a tremendous range of children with a PDD label.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

Better a snotty child, then his nose wip'd off.

Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.

How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!

I've never been a believer in the physical punishment of children. I don't think it is necessary.

Daddy is trying really fugging hard to think of a not-terrifying reason why you'd wake Daddy up in the middle of the night to ask that fugging question. But no. No. Daddy does not have a match or a lighter.

Kids can be a pain in the neck when they're not a lump in your throat.

I was a physical education major with a child psychology minor at Temple, which means if you ask me a question about a child's behavior, I will advise you to tell the child to take a lap.

If a child goes the wrong way, it is not the child who is to be blamed; it is the parents who are responsible.

I just broke up all the furniture in the house. My mother had to get rid of me. So she put me in dance class.

Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.

Give your child a spanking once a day. If you don't know why, he does.

When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.

However in the world did her skin come green?" Nanny wondered, stupidly, for Melena blanched and Frex reddened, and the baby held her breath as if trying to turn blue to please them all. Nanny had to slap her to make her breath again.

Part of the satisfaction of tattling surely comes from showing oneself to adults as a good moral agent, a responsible being who is sensitive to right and wrong. But I would bet that children would tattle even if they could do so only anonymously. They would do it just to have justice done.

I used to work with autistic children, and they said a lot of funny things to me.

I know that many people disagree with the way I disciplined my child. I also understand after meeting with a psychologist that there are other alternative ways of disciplining a child that may be more appropriate.

We say that children are bad at paying attention, but we really mean that they're bad at not paying attention - they easily get distracted by anything interesting.

I'd hate to have a kid like me.

Some strong-willed children absolutely demand to be spanked, and their wishes should be granted. Two or three stinging strokes on the legs or buttocks with a switch are usually sufficient to emphasize the point, 'You must obey me.'

Children will imitate their fathers in their vices, seldom in their repentance.