The sages advise us to study Torah lishma-“for its own sake” rather than to impress others with our scholarship. A paradox of parenting is that if we love our children for their own sake rather...

I have become convinced that the more wealth a country accumulates, the more isolated and lonely its people become. The loneliest are usually the children and the elderly. Children learn what they live, and isolation...

This target is not sufficient to protect the future for children growing up today. If the EU is to make its fair contribution to stay within the carbon budget for the 2C limit then it...

I don’t necessarily want my children to have [Hollywood] as their routine. There are a lot of things going on in the world that are a lot more important than the movie business, and you...

Children coming forth today have a greater capacity to deal with the greater variety of information that is coming forward than you did. They deliberately are coming forth into this environment where there is more...

109They all were children as it were” she saith. Tiring, complaining, and with any colorful thing they are charmingly possessed. Have a second look at their faces; you might be having other things ought to...

Protecting our kids from sexual abuse is not accomplished in a single conversation, but in ongoing conversations grounded in honesty and trust.

If some one loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows in all the millions and millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars. He...

I think the closest thing to a time machine that I’ve ever found is the Children’s section of a library.

My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don’t read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children’s rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent’s...

There is no way the department is responsible for the deaths of these children. This department is among the best – if not the best – social services departments in the state. That grand jury...

I’m just happy to have experienced life; to have had a beautiful son and to have loved.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents

Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues — faith and hope.

Teach children the value of work and to work hard at everything they do. The virtue of compassion and value of appreciation of the hard work of others too.

May you always see the world through the eyes of a child.

The imaginary child implied by the toys on exhibit in Hong Kong was impossible to reconcile with my actual child. I didn’t think I’d like to meet the imaginary child they implied. That child was...

We like to see our future through our children; they are the reflection of the best of ourselves.

Wape watoto wako urithi wa kutosha ili waweze kufanya kitu, lakini si urithi wa kutosha ili wasiweze kufanya kitu. Wape watoto uhuru wanaostahili kupata, uhuru wa mahesabu, lakini si uhuru wa kila kitu.

His house to me was a child was a heart of happiness. If there is a wonder childhood possesses which makes it forever superior to what shall come after, it is the happy and uncritical...

I am far from a perfect dad. And I always will be. But I’m a damn good dad, and my son will always feel bigger than anything life can throw at him. Why? Because I...

Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child’s relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don’t know as much as we think we know.

It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.

They’re a pair of young Satans.

Children are meant to grow up, and not to become Peter Pans. Not to lose innocence and wonder, but to proceed on the appointed journey: that journey upon which it is certainly not better to...

I hate our current leaders becouse they don’t know the value of there people, but like there ideas because it will soon turn against them and any of there kind.

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you’ve trained them.

Cough is very common in children. However, cough and cold medicines are not useful in children and can actually be harmful. In most cases, a cough that is unrelated to chronic lung conditions, environmental influences,...

Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them...

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.

The best part about having kids is not actually having to have kids. Thank you, women.

Well that came out horribly wrong!

Wait,” Honey said to herself, as she realized something amazing. “I’m already an excellent flyer. Maybe I can fight crime too.

Children should enjoy the few years they have just being a kid.

Parenting is a partnership. Loving each other has a big impact on your children.

I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way round.

You are what you eat. What would YOU like to be?

Once, [Rabbi Chanoch] Teller was traveling with 16 of his [18] offspring … while changing planes in Frankfurt, Teller noticed a German woman gaping. ‘Are all of these your children?’ the woman asked. ‘From one...

What parent can give to their children is the gift of daily prayer.

People tend to raise the child inside of them rather than the child in front of them.

Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn’t mean you don’t have them.

Children are lovable and adorable.

It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced – when they still imagine that children and property can be shared with more magnanimity than...

Anybody who hates dogs and babies can’t be all bad.

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions – simple once they are stated, vastly...

We are finding, more and more, children are isolated from nature. Going to the Laguna is a big deal for them.

Increasingly, the girl child is becoming an endangered specie aspedophiles’ continue to roam free in our societies terrorizingthe lives of our children and stripping them of all the joy andexcitement that comes with childhood.

It occurred to Raule that all children were monsters in the world and were instinctively aware of it. They were reminded of their anomalous nature by adults, whom they failed to resemble, and with whose...

Sometimes it seemed difficult for the adults in Sophie’s life to tell between ‘carried away’ and ‘absolutely correct but unbelieved.