Sarah Ockwell Smith Quotes

If you have told a child a thousand times and he still does not understand, then it is not the child who is the slow learner.

Three-year-olds, however, have the added disadvantage of a biological lack of impulse control.

Children watch us more than they listen to us.

Parenting a toddler is like turning the blender on without a lid. Unknown

ourselves all sort of heartache in the present. The irony

Dr Moon found that 72 per cent of parents believed that information regarding health issues on the internet was trustworthy, with 70 per cent saying they had used information found on the internet in an attempt to help their child’s sleep.

even government websites contained many errors, with 20 per cent of the sleep information presented being inaccurate.

very last section of the brain to mature, during the teenage years and early twenties, is the prefrontal cortex, which controls judgment, impulse control, and emotion regulation. Until this section of the brain is well connected, it is reasonable to expect the child, or indeed teenager, to lack judgment and self-control.

Sometimes children who always shout or cry just simply cannot help it.

we are all a work in progress.