Jeannette Walls Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

  Jeannette Walls

  Children, Parent, Swim

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

• Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul, and that was why she ignored us kids when we cried. Fussing over children who cry only encouraged them, she told us. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.

  Jeannette Walls

  Mom, Children, Kids

  Jeannette Walls (2006). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

• Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you are young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul.

  Jeannette Walls

  Mom, Children, People

  Jeannette Walls (2006). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

• No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics.

  Jeannette Walls

  Children, Growing Up, Kids

  "The Glass Castle". Book by Jeannette Walls, 2010.

• Don't you make fun of me or my children! Some babies are premature. Mine were all postmature. That's why they're so smart. Their brains had longer to develop.

  Jeannette Walls

  Baby, Children, Fun

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

• Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.

  Jeannette Walls

  Children, Negative, Reinforcement

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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