Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

Here’s a tip for new parents: Start lowering those expectations early, it’s going to pay off later.

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way – or always to have it.

Far more often [than asking the question ‘Is it true?’] they [children] have asked me: ‘Was he good? Was he wicked?’ That is, they were far more concerned to get the Right side and the...

The ability of anyone in the culture to support and honour gay kids may depend on an ability to name them as such, notwithstanding that many gay adults may never have been gay kids and...

I was surprised that we could see an upward trend in such a short time among overweight children and obese men.

The one encouragement we can always give our children (and one another) is that God is more powerful than our sin, and He’s strong enough to make us want to do the right thing.

It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gambolling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters.

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.Deborah Norville

They just don’t make them like they used to.” Well, except for kids. People still make children the way they always have, though I am working on a product that’ll make the process 100% more...

If I had my child to raise all over again,I’d finger paint more, and point the finger less.I’d do less correcting, and more connecting.I’d take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.I...

Hey, ants!” she shouted. “Please help. Anteater is very hungry, but cannot find any food.

Parents raise children then grow old, and their children forget the things their old parents did for them, because their brains don’t remember before they grew selfish.There are buildings all over the world full of...

It takes dedicated parents to produce consecrated children.

How much our society values its children can be measured by how well they are treated and protected.

Children are our greatest natural resource.

Sometimes people who look different from you are scary. Maybe they are ugly. Maybe they are loud. Maybe theyare big. Maybe they are green. Maybe they are all those things. But you should not be...

A harvester ant never quits and she never, ever gives up.

All that did a big lot toward showing Youth that this big world is ‘not half bad,’ if adults will but watch, aid, and coach. And I will not stand anybody’s snapping at a child!...

Your children will be like olive shootsaround your table.” -Psalm 128:3Children are likened to olive plants. Olive plants, if not pruned and controlled, become a wild nuisance. On the other hand, small olive plants that...

There is no vicious inhumanity than keeping children hungry.

We can best help children learn, not by deciding what we think they should learn and thinking of ingenious ways to teach it to them, but by making the world, as far as we can,...

Every child born into the world has a divine mission to fulfill.As the child grows into adulthood, he or she must act to fulfill the divine mission.

When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy. Matthew 2:10

If we don’t stand up for children, then we don’t stand for much.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them

Thoughts are such fleet magic things. Betsy’s thoughts swept a wide arc while Uncle Keith read her poem aloud. She thought of Julia learning to sing with Mrs. Poppy. She thought of Tib learning to...

I believe, as followers of Christ, we are commanded to reach out to the least of these in the name of Jesus and show them they matter a great deal to God, who sacrificed His...

Independance grows out of a child’s faith that her source of security will always be there when she needs it.

Eis Izras” three times. The door opened at once, unfortunately making lots of noise and waking the humans up. Mikolay knew a few powerful hexes and he was able to create small flying dragons. He...

He brought back some photos of a Navajo rodeo. There were some rather marvelous shots of children and we discussed doing a story about cowboy kids. Before I committed to this, I wanted to make...

In a child’s eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power...

Children and fools always speak the truth.

Life, Rose well knew, could throw some hard punches at you, but nothing hurt as much as losing a child, or seeing one of your children hurt and suffering. Becoming a parent changed you forever,...

All creatures have a sense of territory – except children.

Kids didn’t have huge backpacks when I was their age. We didn’t have backpacks at all. Now it seemed all the kids had them. You saw little second-graders bent over like sherpas, dragging themselves through...

If parents don’t want to hear the truth, children learn not to speak it.

a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.

All children are curious and I wonder by what process this trait becomes developed in some and suppressed in others. I suspect again that schools and colleges help in the suppression insofar as they meet...

When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children

This is not a contest with your child. The winner is not the one with more points. The winner is the one whose child still loves them when they graduate from high school.

Parents are starting to understand that this could be one of the tools for (their children) to get an education. Every kid knows that that’s an opportunity for them to get off the island and...

A lot has changed for me. My life has improved. It’s not only children, but the relationship with my wife is the best thing that ever happened to me.

You cannot sacrifice the world for your children.

The most precious gift that you can give to the child is unconditional love and acceptance, which allows the child to discover his own inner being, his authentic self, his freedom to be himself.

And the end of this paradox is that only when the child is thus free can he have the proper attachment to his parents; only when we allow his independence can he then freely offer...

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.