One of pleasures of parenting, future reader: parent can positively influence kid, make moment kid will remember for rest of life, moment that alters his/her trajectory, opens up his/her heart + mind.

God has called us to something vastly bigger than our happiness or that of our children.

For such small heads, little kids seem to have the biggest brains. No disrespect to midgets.

Leave your mark on the world by leaving behind a child who grows up to love and serve the Lord.

The Children’s HourBetween the dark and the daylight,When the night is beginning to lower,Comes a pause in the day’s occupations,That is known as the Children’s Hour.I hear in the chamber above meThe patter of little...

It’s said that sport is the civilised society’s substitute for war, and also that the games we play as children are designed to prepare us for the realities of adult life. Certainly it’s true that...

He looked the boy up and down as if he had never seen a child before and wasn’t quite sure what he was supposed to do with one: eat it, ignore it or kick it...

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

cranky.” And big, gulping sobs, or sad, unhappy young minds, in a tiny body should not occur in any community of civilization. Adulthood holds many an opportunity for such conditions. Childhood should not.

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

This is the same type of doll as that handed out on several occasions by US soldiers to children.

People worried too much about their children. Suffering when you’re young is good for you. It immunized your body and soul…

Children remind us that we’re all children.

Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.

I snap and storm around and then spend long nights thinking of the most damaged adults I know and wondering if my particular brand of maternal fuckups are how they ended up like that.

Today our children are our reflection. Tomorrow they will be our shadows.

Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer...

Wherever it is you make your home, there is always this other place, this other person, calling to you. Come to me. Come back.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself… You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,...

Julia heard from her mummy that fairies were gentle creatures with singing voices just like the mermaids.

And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out,...

Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated from their chance at community; interrupt kids with bells and horns all the...

For gypsies do not like to stay -They only come to go away.

You want to keep guns separated from children.

The child that’s at the hospital on life support is not related to any of the other children or the daycare provider.

It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale – they are well-equipped to deal with these

The best thing parents can do for their children is allow them to be who they were born to be.

The hurt that troubled children create is never greater than the hurt they feel.

Congressman (Hefley) certainly is interested in the protection of children and keeping them out of reach of sexual predators. But he also thinks that the bill should have been taken for its merits (without) trying...

There passed a child of four, a small girl on a footpath over the fields, going home in the evening to Erl. They looked at each other with round eyes.”Hullo,” said the child.”Hullo, child of...

Being a ‘good’ parent is more about the parent, and, less about the ‘supposedly-could-have-been-bad’ child.

I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, in order to give their children a right to study painting,...

Without you there would be no me. I am everything reflected in your eyes. I am everything approved by your smile. I am everything born of your guidance. I am me only because of you.

If you want kids, choose your girlfriend like your future child has the deciding vote.

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.

Les bras d’une mère sont faits de tendresse et un doux sommeil benit l’enfant qui s’y abandonne.

To retreat into oneself and meet nobody for hours on end—that is what one must be able to attain. To be alone, as one was alone as a child, when the grown-ups walked about involved...

Only children simply accept the fact that their parents have the right to make choices for them. Even disobedient children never question the fact that their parents have that right. They may choose to flout...

God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.

In that day, we didn’t have no remote controls and vacuum cleaners. If you wanted all that stuff you had children!

so I have to use lots and lots of little ones.

Nevertheless, it shows a small but significant difference in a large group of children.

Cuddle with your children. Don’t just read – talk about the pictures too. Give emphasis to your words and make them come alive!Make it fun and enjoyable.

Youth was his main drive. He wanted to use the money toward children to advance education.

I walk the beach to smile at other peopleand their busy children, trying to findanother way to save the world.

Children are receiving anti-psychotics with greater frequency, and that may be because they are viewed as less dangerous than the older medications and can be helpful for conditions that were previously treated with other medications.

Then if children make so much trouble, why do people have ’em?

God’s children and their happiness are my reasons for being.

You will never find the real truth among people that are insecure or have egos to protect. Truth over time becomes either guarded or twisted as their perspective changes; it changes with the seasons of...

When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing, putting everything into their tears, which they spread liberally about for the whole world...