I am convinced that an immense number of people who have children should not have them, and do not particularly want them, except as “symbols” of family life. What they want are ideal children, not...

Can you be a little baby? The baby howls all day, yet its throat never gets hoarse – harmony at its height! The baby makes fists all day, yet its fingers never get cramped –...

Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors.

That said, pointing out inaccurate or unrealistic portrayals of women to younger grade school children-ages five to eight-does seem to be effective, when done judiciously:taking to little girls about body image and dieting, for example,...

Yes it’s true, you wake the child inside of you up because you’re a Mom!

An infant is a seed. Is it an oak seed or a cabbage seed? Who knows. All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.

I wish to resist the temptation to kiss…By super magic animals (Song: The Temptation)A visual poem about unfulfilled love…

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

Children who are not encouraged to do, to try, to explore, to master, and to risk failure, often feel helpless and inadequate. Over-controlled by anxious, fearful parents, these children often become anxious and fearful themselves....

When you treat a person right in the present they turn out better in the future.

It is a splendid thing to think that the woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles of time, through the mask of years, if you really love her, you...

I think we said everything that we wanted to say. We spoke about responsibility, the fate of children that survived; we spoke about the dead, those who didn’t live to grow old; we spoke about...

Family and friends become oppressors the moment they teach you that loyalty is more important than what is done to people outside your social circle. What they are really saying is this: Save yourself because...

You and I. Hand in hand. An endless story of love. A love that grew in me for 9 months and only grows bigger each day.You and I. Hand in hand. An endless journey. Countless...

What’s it like being drunk? Like being awake and asleep at the same time.

Of course the reason that all the children in our town like Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is because Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle likes children, she enjoys talking to them and best of all they do not irritate her.

Children are forced into prostitution, begging and soliciting, labor on plantations and in mines, markets, factories and domestic work.

The grief of children was unconditional, fueled by the implicit belief that it would last forever; for a child, grief was not grief unless it was eternal.

It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child’s curiosity and then...

Do whatever you must do to protect your children and wife.

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

Soeur Marie Emelie”Soeur Marie Emelieis little and very old:her eyes are onyx,and her cheeks vermilion,her apron wide and kindand cobalt blue.She comfortsgenerations and generationsof children,who are “new”at the convent school.When they are eight,they are already...

This means that five days a week, we are sending our school children into environments where there is an abundance of high-calorie, low-nutritional-quality, inexpensive food.

Remember, Little Ones, everything is not important all the time. Only living is important all the time. Not things. Not money. Not more things and more endless money. Spend well the quality of your time....

When your children arrive, the best you can hope for is that they break open everything about you. Your mind floods with oxygen. Your heart becomes a room with wide-open windows. You laugh hard every...

On this Mother’s Day and every day before and after, I thank you God for the precious gift of my three children. I love them unconditionally.

The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.

When you meet a man who is over 80, who can communicate with young children the way he did, it was incredible to watch.

Our culture sentimentalizes children, and we forget one of the things that we should most remember from that time of our lives: Children know that this world can be hard on them, harder than it...

This shows you that even mistakes are sometimes valuable, so do not be hard on grown-up people if they are wrong sometimes.

Culpable obtuseness. He should know better. That’s one reason why we don’t use the a-word, for example, of little children. They can merit the s-word, because there’s a malignity that’s innate in little kids sometimes,...

Ikiwa huna pesa na una mke na watoto kwa mfano, mke wako (wanawake walio wengi) hatakuona wa maana kwa sababu ya ustawi wa maisha ya familia yake. Ikiwa una mwanamke asiyekuwa na busara au hekima...

After all I’ve done for you’ has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.

Loving my son, building my son, touching my son, playing with my son, being with my son… these aren’t tasks that only super dads can perform. These are tasks that every dad should perform. Always....

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

Women want respect but are let down by those of them who don’t respect themselves. Several men use this as an excuse to disrespect women. We are born with this as the norm and not...

You know, Dorothy, you can’t let people bring you down so easily or you’ll have your nose in the dirt for the rest of your life. From what I make of it, for every person...

Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.

The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it’s rarely a straight line.

The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.

Children in the developing world may respond differently.

I think children want to believe that they can be heroes too.

There were still few rules at Down House, and Charles was not very good at enforcing the ones he and Emma did make. This was well known among his children. In 1855, when Lenny was...

Kids are a pain in the ass.

It was interesting. Isabelle thought, the children that chose you. Some come through your body; others came in cars in the middle of the night.

I have hunger.

This book is not about “homeschooling” at all. School is an artificial institution contrived by man. This book is about educating a child in the heart of the family given to that child by his...

Model the qualities that you want your children to show to each other.

It’s important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It’s not only life of babies, but it’s life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.

A child’s reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, the very...