It makes no sense rushing to become a parent if you are not going to be a good one. No child deserves anything less than unconditional love and positive guidance. Our nation and the world...

Peanut butter and jelly is like the older, more serious brother to egg salad sandwich. I’m an only child, so I eat both with incredible sadness.

It was not easy for my mother, being a struggling actress and raising a child. We were these two sort of vagabonds, never knowing where the money was going to come from. She always says...

If you have taught your child how to walk when he is all alone, it means that you have taught him everything!

I didn’t play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them.

One of the most important accomplishments of the Caucus is raising awareness with law enforcement and communities nationwide on the issues of child safety and Internet safety.

I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who...

You see, here’s my theory: Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father’s love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to...

It didn’t matter he was brilliant and dedicated and good. He was a child. He was young.No he isn’t, thought Ender. Small, yes. Bur Bean has been through a battle with a whole army depending...

We believe every child is created equal with the right to life.

She wished she had eyes like her sister, huge and bright, constantly straddling the line between terrified child and ingénue.

HECUBA: I had a knife in my skirt, Achilles. When Talthybius bent over me, I could have killed him. I wanted to. I had the knife just for that reason. Yet, at the last minute...

Water is like a child, it always wants to be in motion.

Parents, first and foremost, it is important to… understand and recognise the activities your child is naturally gravitating towards. It’s important also to ensure that your child likes what he or she is doing. I...

I have one top-notch baby with whom I am in love. It’s a head-over-heels “first love” kind of thing, because I pay for everything and all we do is hold hands.

Why isn’t there a commandment to “honor thy children” or at least one to “not abuse thy children”? The notion that we must honor our parents causes many people to bury their real feelings and...

First you be a hero and then raise your child to be a hero.

I’ve got some news… I’m delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together. I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we’re over the moon.

Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mechanism. Because I could use it to control my image.

When given age-appropriate challenges, children tend to take them very seriously; in fact, the more obvious the risk is, the more cautiously a child will proceed.

My feelings towards it can only be paralleled by that of a doting parent towards an idiot child.

Isn’t a kid alive who doesn’t dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.

I can see that an insufficent, or perhaps even defective, socialization process has led you to believe that four-letter words add power to languauge

We’re probably close to reaching 2,000 shows, which is more than Julia Child and Jacques Pepin together.

She was very fond of thinking and getting at the truth of things, but was so far from being pedantic, so full of youthful ways that from the first moment one began to love all...

As a child, when I lost things such as my precious pocketknife, I learned that if I prayed hard enough, I could usually find it. I was always able to find the lost cows I...

Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn’t parenting. Parenting is not telling your child what to do when he or she misbehaves. Parenting is providing the conditions in which...

When I was a child, I thought like a child.When I became adult, I seek a deeper understanding of life.

The adult were once young.The young have not yet attained adulthood.The young must learn to appreciate the wisdom of elderly people and learn from their life experiences.

Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.

Being a parent wasn’t just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

Celebrate your child’s achievement, then rotate it when the next mini-masterpiece comes along. Then chuck the old picture. Don’t worry that you’re throwing away a memory. Your children will remember your praise more than they...

Not a lot of people make that transition from child actor to bigger, better roles.

So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don’t feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is.

We were young, she continued, while she had a bad heart. Did we not want to earn our tips, she asked us and, cowed, we refrained from introducing the subject again.Her bad heart, I noticed,...

Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, especially in the areas of unemployment benefits,...

She can look at you and make you feel like you’re the only one in the world. Even if it’s not true, she can make you feel that way. And with her child, it would...

Even though our journey as parents of a medically fragile child began with emotional turmoil, it has since become a purposeful odyssey that brings meaning and depth to our lives. This is the road we...

I went over to see Marina two or three or four times a week. I knew as long as I could see the girl I would be all right…. Soon after, I got a letter...

Forcing the muse to let thoughts flow; equals to pushing a child, into labor.

One’s past can’t be erased, it can only be learned from, the child taught her.

The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.

By loving them for more than their abilities we show our children that they are much more than the sum of their accomplishments.

My mum actually gave up work to look after my child, which is so touching.

It’s very lonely bringing up a child on your own.

I could have had someone else take care of my child but I did it because that was my moral obligation and also it was a joy and I felt it was in the best...

I can’t escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Route 23 between Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, where...

I was thought to be retarded as a child, and all the evidence indicates that I was.

I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.