Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off.
Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.
Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.
For children, Christmas is anticipation. For adults, Christmas is memory.
Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.
My mom would have killed me before, but I'm an adult woman now, and I'm ready to show the world that you can have it all at 40 - be fabulous, 40, and pose for Playboy.
I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.
I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubt’s complete absence. They have forgotten.
Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.
One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves.
Admitting that Katie had taken too much blood was on par with saying an adult human had pooped their pants or eaten their own boogers!
For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.
human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well; if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By the time we are adults we no longer remember.
We've fallen down on our responsibility to our children by somehow creating this world where they're surrounded by images of sexuality; and yet, we as adults struggle to talk to kids honestly about sex, the rules of dignity and consent.
I look back at my adolescence, and Im shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.
I'm sure that we can handle this situation maturely, just like the responsible adults that we are. Isn't that right, Mr. Poopy Pants?
I always had an easier time with adults. Somehow, I was always old! I still feel old.
I was convinced that adults would realize more what they are capable of doing if it's shown through children's eyes.
Adults who enter into public life implicitly consent to having less privacy, but their families - especially their children - should not be treated callously or thoughtlessly.