- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children Quotes
Raising kids, and the duties that come with it.
Quotes about "children" here include a filmmaker recalling audience shock at a controversial early work, alongside pointed reminders that entertainment isn't a substitute for parenting at home. For prayer-focused content about children, see Prayers for children.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Discipline
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- Nov 07, 2020
Successful creative adults seem to combine the wide-ranging exploration and openness we see in children with the focus and discipline we see in adults.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.
- Detail
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real excitement is collaborating with computer scientists and neuroscientists and starting to understand in detail how children learn so much so quickly.
- Baby
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the oldest of six children and I had my own first baby when I was 23. So I've always been interested in babies, and I had lots of opportunities to watch them.
- Graduate School
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- Nov 07, 2020
Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate school there was a real scientific revolution taking place in developmental psychology.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imaginary friends are one of the weirder forms of pretend play in childhood. But the research shows that imaginary friends actually help children understand the other people around them and imagine all the many ways that people could be.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like most parents, I think, my children have been the source of some of my most intense joys and despairs, my deepest moral dilemmas and greatest moral achievements.
- Mysterious
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- Nov 07, 2020
Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a developmental psychologist didn't make me any better at dealing with my own children, no. I muddled through, and, believe me, fretted and worried with the best of them.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teaching is a very effective way to get children to learn something specific - this tube squeaks, say, or a squish then a press then a pull causes the music to play. But it also makes children less likely to discover unexpected information and to draw unexpected conclusions.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.
- Isolation
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- Nov 07, 2020
In most places and times in human history, babies have had not just one person but lots of people around who were really paying attention to them around, dedicated to them, cared to them, were related to them. I think the big shift in our culture is the isolation in which many children are growing up.
- Isolation
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do nothing for children between the ages of zero and five. And we seem to be quite happy to have children growing up in not just poverty, which wouldn't be so bad, but isolation, lack of people around them, lack of support, lack of ability to go out and play in the dirt.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020