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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

As far as I can tell, it doesn’t make any difference to adults how clever children are. They always stick together. Unless you are sick or dying or mortally wounded, they will always side with...

Os filhos estão entre as aquisições mais caras que o consumidor médio pode fazer ao longo de toda a sua vida. Em termos puramente monetários, eles custam mais do que um carro luxuoso do ano,...

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you’re an artist, by children if you’re not.

I’m not a goody-two-shoes. I’m just a father with four children.

He was not being courageous as he bore the freezing stream for his wife and children. He simply chose between the lesser of two evils—the pain and suffering he would endure in the river, a...

That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is laughter. And most of all, there is trust. Trust in your fellows. When you...

I was very encouraged that there were families with young children at the festival. History today has to be presented in inventive ways in order to hold children’s interest.

I said… how, and why, young children, were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

My children, who don’t know they play on a graveyard.

Children are ingenuous. They are also blessed with uncanny ability to read a person’s character instantly. Even though they are inexperienced and unsophisticated, they often know instinctively who can be trusted and who is the...

Children are capable of such open rudeness.

A girl got kicked out of the swimming hole today. Inge Hachmann. They said they wouldn’t let us swim with a half-breed. Unsanitary. A half-breed, Werner. Aren’t we half-breeds too? Aren’t we half our mother,...

Tiddlywinks, tiddlywinks, I want to play tiddlywinks,” chanted Ramona, shaking her head back and forth.

We must be prepared for a worsening drought. Children are especially vulnerable to malnutrition and disease and the burden on already over-stretched health, nutrition and water services will be even greater.

The more closely he has observed the tugboat, the more deeply he has been stirred by it, and the more eagerly and vividly he will strive to recreate it, in building, in drawing, in words.

What I see here is nothing but a shell. What is most important is invisible…

He said No to those Wild Things and so did I. Sometimes we said No and sometimes we shouted it and we were ferocious because it counted for everything.

When you are a grown up your brothers become your neighbors and your unconditional brotherhood become your conditional neighborhood.

I wrote “David” because it seemed to me that children, who can love a book more passionately than any grown person, got such a lot of harmless entertainment and not enough real, valuable literature.

One does silly things when one is twelve.

What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

Ever seen a two-year-old tattering around a garden? There might be a poison ivy, or rose bushes or hawthorne around the edges. There might be spades or secateurs lying on the lawn. The kid doesn’t...

N’en déplaise aux bêtifications des nouveaux adultes occidentaux, n’en déplaise à cette nouvelle religion – la seule, au fond, qui tienne et fasse même l’unanimité – selon laquelle l’enfance, en tant que telle, serait pure,...

So time passed on. And the two skyscrapers decided to have a child. And they decided when their child came it should be a *free* child. “It must be a free child,” they said to...

Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope.

One of the questions asked by al-Balkhi, and often repeated to this day, is this: Why do the children of Israel continue to suffer? My grandmother Dodo thought it was because the goyim were jealous....

Mommy do princesses seem at all like me?”look inside yourself and you’ll see.

My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.

The verbal patterns and the patterns of behavior we present to children in these lighthearted confections are likely to influence them for the rest of their lives. These aesthetic impressions, just like the moral teachings...

It’s time we stand up and demand more of the fathers of this world. It’s time we stop buying into their rationalizations and their sorry explanations. It’s time we give our kids a fighting chance.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.

There wouldn’t be half as much fun in the world if it weren’t for children and men, and there ain’t a mite of difference between them under the skins