The cafeteria in the Chicago’s Children’s Memorial Hospital basement was the saddest place in the world—and forever it shall be—with its grim neon lights and gray tabletops and the diffuse foreboding of those who stepped...

A lover was affectionate and a husband was authoritative. His work was always way more important than his family. His work and his needs were to be accepted as uppermost in every way. She could...

Don’t spoil kids by trying to buy them off, to buy their time. Kids aren’t stupid. They know a bribe when they see one. They want a parent not a payoff.

From the time he was young, he dressed the way you told him to dress; he acted the way you told him to act; he said the things you told him to say. He’s been...

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes...

And that was the point of children, thought Caroline Meddey: to bind us to the earth and to the present, to distract us from death.

Reading to small children is a specialty.

There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.

The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before – but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever. As they drew near to...

Kolonia Santita imesambaa dunia nzima. Hapa Meksiko wana magenge rafiki zaidi ya mia moja yakiwemo makubwa kabisa katika Latino ya Matamolos na Baja California. Nikitekwa nyara na memba yoyote wa magenge hayo, kuna uwezekano mkubwa...

feminine” just because they have their own likes and opinions on things? Things that really don’t matter?

Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams.

…he is not like other children, not cruel, or savage. For this very reason he is called ‘strange.’ A child who is mature, in the sense that the heart is mature, is always, I have...

That evening he plays with the children, cleans the hamster’s cage with them, gets them into their pyjamas, and reads to them three times over, once together, then to Jake on his own, then to...

When children start putting together in their minds that Santa Claus may not be real, they’ll ask questions — and that’s an opening for parents to get them talking about what’s logical or not to...

In all our efforts to provide ”advantages” we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.”

We’re being shelled and bombed and assassinated and killed. Our homes are being destroyed, our children traumatized. Our livelihoods, our institutions, our infrastructure totally demolished.

When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it’s amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be...

Christians are famous for telling people to be “child-like” and yet one of the greatest qualities of a child (the never ending list of questions) is often discouraged.

Growing up in a household where something is terribly wrong, you feel the weight of that mysterious something even though it’s unspoken. It eats at you. Confuses you. It leaves you wondering if your view...

I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time.

I don’t hold Travis anymore, of course- not to read to him, or for any other reason, either. I wish I’d known that the last time was going to be the last time.

When I have children I want an even number of boys and girls, and that’s why I want 15 kids—7 boys, 7 girls, and one hermaphrodite named Sam.

We’ll make plans on sticky notes and we’ll stick to them. We’ll get married, but only after we buy some milk, cereal, and a book of baby names.

Praying for your children is the most powerful way you can care for them.

Why haven’t I got a husband and children?” mused Greta Garbo to the Dutchess of Windsor, “I never met a man I could marry.

The streets are silent / The playgrounds are still /The noise has moved elsewhere / Into our homes / Into our hearts / It’s been too long /Children are not where they belong /The streets,...

I like Mr. Dickens’ books much better than yours, Papa. Said one of Thackeray’s daughters.

Gametocyte-infected children attracted about twice as many mosquitoes as either uninfected ones or ones infected with non-transmissible stages. The results really jump out.

An educated mind is nothing but the God-given mind of a child after his parents’ and his grandparents’ generation have got through molding it. We can’t help teaching you; you will ask that of us;...

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

A parent who cannot provide the basic needs of two children, must not even bear one.

Not long after the book came out I found myself being driven to a meetingby a professor of electrical engineering in the graduate school I of MIT. He said that after reading the book he...

We can all agree that children are ugly.

If Fonda believes there are starving children in north Georgia, she should start feeding them instead of feeding buffalo in Montana. Or maybe she could persuade her husband to redirect his $1 billion pledge to...

The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of us nice middle-class folk could make it without our mortgage...

They began work at 5:30 and quit at 7 at night. Children six years old going home to lie on a straw pallet until time to resume work the next morning! I have seen the...

I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome.

Our wives, our families, and our churches need godly men who have discernment–discernment to deal with life and life-issues on a spiritual level.

The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today’s youth.

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Parents have to instill the right principles in their children, but then it’s up to the children to live up to those principles.

Children of the mentally ill learn early on how not to be a bother, especially if they grew up with neglect. As my sister insisted once, when she was in severe pain after injuring her...

Well, it doesn’t look good. Makes me look like one of those unloved latchkey children they make after-school specials about.””Don’t sell yourself short. You’re more Masterpiece Theatre.

There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.

The children of Ivory Coast will not allow them to do it. Those who stand up against us, we will fight,

I do not have money to invest nor i have studied finance to be an investment banker but i would like to be an investor in the society; by investing my love care and compassion...

You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried to see them off into life and hoped that the...

You know, it’s pretty easy reading this book to see why I was angry and confused for all those years. I lived my life being told different stories: some true, some lies and I still...

But it seems she’d wanted children after all, because when she was told she’d been accidentally sterilized she could feel all the light leaking out of her.