Kid's Behavior Quotes

When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.

Us as rappers underestimate the power and effects that we have on these kids

My kids don't really buy albums. They buy singles.

If you really want to change the world, change kids when they're two.

I appreciate the power of a White House bully pulpit - but kids listen and learn primarily from other kids. If your son's friend tells him that the apple is better than the fries, he's more likely to listen.

[My kids] are, sweet, kind, funny, smart, respectful people, and they treat everybody with respect. That's not just the biases of a parent. We feel pretty good when we hear back from friends, cause they still have sleepovers and they go to other folks houses and when the parents say, oh you know, Malia, she's just so sweet, or Sasha helped to pick up the dishes.

Our role, to be an idol, is very important. Kids follow everything we say and we do.

You get to become a kid again when you work with kids. They do crazy stuff.

These parents, they think I'm a role model for their kids, that their kids look at me as some sort of idol. But it's the parents' job to make sure their kids don't turn out that shallow.

People talk about Japanese kids as being inward-looking. But my experience is that if you offer them an opportunity, they'll take it.

My son, before he went to school, he'd eat pretty much everything. Then as soon as he went to school, he got some peer pressure, and other kids would say, 'Oh, you're gonna eat that. That's horrible. That's disgusting.'

It was always theater for me. But part of that came out of the fact that I was always acting out as a kid. I was the kid who didn't play well with others.

If you gave kids peas that didn't look like peas and said they were a space shuttle, they're much more apt to eat them because it's now playtime.

I like to mimic my grandkids. I'm trying to understand the intensity of fixation on a leaf. Kids don't need anything else in their life.

Our four-year-old, like a lot of kids, you introduce him to an iPad and he quite quickly gets drawn in in a way that you're like, "Wow, I've got to stage an intervention here." He picked up on gaming terminology really quickly. If you say, "Keep practicing holding a pencil and see if you can draw a letter, the alphabet," he understands that if you do that you've unlocked Level Two.

My parents say that even as a very, very little kid, the way that I acted was dramatically different from other little kids.

If your kids see what you eat, they will probably eat it, too. I'm not going to use the old-school policy of what my mother did and say to my kids, 'Well, if you are hungry enough, you will eat what I put on the table!' I think my kids have an understanding that if they see what their parents do, they should follow, too.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.

I was not a fussy kid and had a good appetite. Only, I was not happy to eat keerai and vegetables.

I go to movies with my children and see fat kids burping, parents portrayed as total morons, and kids being mean and materialistic, and I feel it's really slim pickin's out there. There's a little dribble of a moral tacked on, but the story is not about that.

I'm not a policy oriented person. I'm constrained to what I study. But educational policy has not yet taken adequate note of the whole child. Kids are not just their IQ or standardized test scores. It matters whether or not they show up, how hard they work.

If you look where kids are spending time on the Net, they may have all the information in the world, but they're not accessing it.

The most important thing parents can do, although it's not the only thing they should do, is model the behavior they want from their kids.

The one thing that will be the bane of my existence with my kid will probably be the way he or she is most like me in some ways.