Loss has no friend, no allies, no benefit to the human spirit.

Children with disabilities are stronger than we know, they fight the battles that most will never know.

Grandchildren are their grandparents’ toys.

The process of grief and loss is as unique as your personal DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid); no two individuals will have the same experiences or relationship to grief.

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.

Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?

There is no greater grief, than when a parent losses a child.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation.

This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.

Relearning from children their need to question and discover can ignite one’s creativity and reveal more possibilities.

The dream too thinks twice, gets filtered to go softto be seated on children’s eyes.

No child ever became ‘good’ by being told that she or he was bad or by beating her/him.

Children are teachers of love.

As fathers, we should have a desire to be active participants in our children’s lives.

In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time — none, zero. You’d be amazed at how much Warren reads–and at how...

Secure attachment has been linked to a child’s ability to successfully recover and prove resilient in the presence of a traumatic event.

Reading is a source of liberation. Children who are taught to read early on, are commonly taught to communicate in other significant verbal and nonverbal ways.

Children are barometers of the chaos that exists within their lives.

As an individual, you are entitled to your time of grief, process of grief, and right to grieve.

Whatever I haven’t accomplished biologically obviously wasn’t all that imperative.

Young children have no past. The old have no future. The rest are too busy with present. This time-tripod holds up the world. You ignore the importance of this interdependence of the three, the world...

I’m planting a tree to teach me to gather strength from my deepest roots.

Kids use words in ways that release hidden meanings, revel the history buried in sounds. They haven’t forgotten that words can be more than signs, that words have magic, the power to be things, to...

Children with autism are colourful – they are often very beautiful and, like the rainbow, they stand out.

The school hours for children are the best time for learning, and need the best environment and mission oriented learning with value based educational system.

Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly.

We are accustomed to repeating the cliché, and to believing, that ‘our most precious resource is our children.’ But we have plenty of children to go around, God knows, and as with Doritos, we can...

For while they’d stayed close during the absurd years of his sharp rise, having children had knocked it all into a different arrangement. The minute you had children you closed ranks. You didn’t plan this...

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.

Make no mistake, every child has his own light, no matter how difficult or defiant or unlikeable he or she might seem.

It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

They love their children. They want them back. They are truly devastated.

Don’t ever have children, Tyler, unless you’re ready to be afraid everyday for the rest of your life.

One of the messages from this study is that children born preterm should have their blood pressure checked at follow-up visits, at least when they reach school age, because it may be important to consider...

It’s especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.

If you don’t take pets, or if your house is not set up for small children, we need to know.

Fair and unfair are for children

The truth is that the more intimately you know someone, the more clearly you’ll see their flaws. That’s just the way it is. This is why marriages fail, why children are abandoned, why friendships don’t...

Children need to know that the things that make them vastly different from one another are the very things that make them beautifully special.

Nick and the CandlestickI am a miner. The light burns blue. Waxy stalactitesDrip and thicken, tearsThe earthen wombExudes from its dead boredom. Black bat airsWrap me, raggy shawls, Cold homicides.They weld to me like plums.Old...

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.

She was mined for the childrenin her, one daughter, then another, a short seam, quick to clay, and not a single son to save them.

The best thing she was, was her children.

It takes everybody getting involved and creating an atmosphere where parents, grandparents and children come together.

Sorting out what’s good and bad is the province of ethics. It is also what keeps priests, pundits, and parents busy. Unfortunately, what keeps children and philosophers busy is asking the priests, pundits and parents,...

There’s a lot of people making lots of profit today, but it’s not the school children of Alabama.

Every new dayOur children’s joy is as fresh as roses,Even the birds chatter at dawn.

I figure when my husband comes home from work, if the kids are still alive, then I’ve done my job.