Babies are soft. Anyone looking at them can see the tender, fragile skin and know it for the rose-leaf softness that invites a finger’s touch. But when you live with them and love them, you...

I sympathize with a mother who has three mouths to feed—especially if two of those mouths are on her face. With a woman like that I’d listen twice as hard for doublespeak. I’m pretty accustomed...

The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.

Her mindset will raise your children not her body or good looks

It was an accident, although Ive been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child in school, music, athletics. To me, acting is the most logical way for peoples...

I’ve got to have kids of my own. If not, who’s going to ascend to my throne?

[E]verywhere I’m looking at kids, adults mostly don’t seem to like them, not even the parents do. They call the kids gorgeous and so cute, they make the kids do the thing all over again...

It’s a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that means bringing things up with them: Asking, telling, sounding them out,...

When it comes to technology, you’re in a position of your children having to teach you. How often do kids have any power or authority? How often do parents come to them and listen to...

It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

What would it profit us to possess and perform everything else and be like pure saints, if we meanwhile neglected our chief purpose in life, namely, the care of the young?

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain

The nastiest kind of writer is a ghostwriter, who bears people’s children in their body for money.

In general, this indicates an endemic problem. There’s a discounting of children. Robert did exactly what he was taught to do. And if we’re concerned in the United States about the welfare of children, as...

The grace of birth is a divine.

Parents are programmed to want the best for their kids, regardless of what they get in return. That’s what love is supposed to be like, right? But in fact, if you think about it, that’s...

To all you parents out there, don’t make your little girls, or little boys, so thirsty for love that they will want to drink water that will poison them.

I truly believe that the children who are diagnosed with cancer are some of the wisest, sweetest, strongest, and most loving children. They have gained a bigger perspective of the world in such a short...

You can overcome whatever is going on around you if you believe in the light that lives within you.

The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.

Adults, in their dealing with children, are insane,” he [Ed Ricketts] said. “And children know it too. Adults lay down rules they would not think of following, speak truths they do not believe. And yet...

There is no better satisfaction than to see your children make your dreams theirs, and achieve them on their terms.

Mikolay and Julia live in the same neighborhood and go tothe same school every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Adoption is the most intentional process on Earth.

When i was a child, i liked tasting any candy i happened to see, but as i grew older, i realized those are a great meal to the worms in my innards. Will you shun...

Every child comes into this world as a gift to humanity. It is up to us, as adults, to see that they are properly taken care of and given all the love and attention they...

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make...

Middle-income children are being left behind. Children in poverty have access to Head Start. Upper-income parents buy whatever is best for their child — usually a preschool of very high quality. It’s the middle class...

He switched off the light, came back and sat in the chair. In the darkness, Liesel kept her eyes open. She was watching the words.

Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew.””He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children to adulthood. I understand your mother has six.””Right.””And you’re the oldest.””Yes.””That’s too bad. Parents...

The notion of children makes me ill. The thought of having one… when you see those guys in the supermarket, wheeling the trolley around while their brats whine and wheedle and some blundering sow questions...

Children get food shelter pocket money longholidays and love, all of it apparently free gratis, and most of the little fools think it’s a sort of compensation for having been born. ‘There are no strings...

I believe there was a terribly misguided effort to protect children from what some prosecutors somewhere in this country might consider offensive or indecent online material, … The Communications Decency Act tramples on the free...

Youth was the time for happiness, its only season; young people, leading a lazy, carefree life, partially occupied by scarcely absorbing studies, were able to devote themselves unlimitedly to the liberated exultation of their bodies....

I have four children which is not bad considering I’m not a Catholic.

You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.

Every eviction is just heart breaking, and they almost always have to do with — always have — children involved.

Kids are trusting and wise and I cannot think of a less useful combination to be born with. The wisdom lets children know who they are. And then the trust lets everyone else take that...

Our children are regularly asked very detailed questions about their personal lives and parents are seldom notified. Too often these surveys are worded in ways that nearly encourage … unhealthy behaviors.

There are not seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.

All these candidates talk about children,

Recognizing that God has called you to function as his agent defines your task as a parent. Our culture has reduced parenting to providing care. Parents often see the task in these narrow terms. The...

God sends little children to speak and act for him. In their simplicity and naivety they say and do things that we adults never would, but which can reveal deep truths about the way the...

Non lasciare che qualcuno cerchi di convincerti che i bambini non si portino dietro i loro rancori nella vita da adulti.

The creative adult is the child who survived after the world tried killing them, making them grown up. The creative adult is the child who survived the blandness of schooling, the unhelpful words of bad...

We made that decision based on the educational needs of the children. We did not want to sacrifice four days of those kids’ academic lives.

Dress well because you can; not because its a choice imposed you.

It’s quite sad that so many children go through life unsure whether their parents love them or not.