Famous Quotes by David Elkind

  • Young children learn in a different manner from that of older children and adults, yet we can... More
  • Much of the pressure contemporary parents feel with respect to dressing children in designer... More
  • Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents... More
  • Certainly, young children can begin to practice making letters and numbers and solving problems,... More
  • Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring.... More
  • No authority in the field of child psychology, pediatrics, or child psychiatry advocates the... More
  • So while it is true that children are exposed to more information and a greater variety of... More
  • The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in... More
  • Certainly parents play a crucial role in the lives of individuals who are intellectually gifted... More
  • Preschoolers sound much brighter and more knowledgeable than they really are, which is why so... More
  • The conviction that the best way to prepare children for a harsh, rapidly changing world is to... More
  • We often overestimate the influence of a peer group on our teenager. While the peer group is most... More
  • Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most... More
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    It is through friendships that teenagers learn to take responsibility, provide... More
  • If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal... More
  • If learning to read was as easy as learning to talk, as some writers claim, many more children... More
  • When children dress like adults they are more likely to behave as adults do, to imitate adult... More
  • Today’s pressures on middle-class children to grow up fast begin in early childhood. Chief... More
  • Sigmund Freud was once asked to describe the characteristics of maturity, and he replied: lieben... More
  • We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love,... More
  • What we often take to be family values—the work ethic, honesty, clean living, marital fidelity,... More
  • Because we cannot control all that our children see, hear, and play, it is tempting to throw up... More
  • Modern children were considerably less innocent than parents and the larger society supposed, and... More
  • The shift from the perception of the child as innocent to the perception of the child as... More
  • Taking the child’s point of view demands good will, time, and effort on the part of parents.... More
  • It makes little sense to spend a month teaching decimal fractions to fourth-grade pupils when... More
  • As a father I had some trouble finding the words to separate the person from the deed. Usually,... More

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