Mr. Schlubb, the pear-shaped PE teacher, sent us all out to run half a dozen laps around a preposterously enormous cinder track. For the Greenwood kids—all of us white, marshmallowy, innately unphysical, squinting unfamiliarly in...

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

The problem with a man is, he is no more a child.

A child is the quickest to trust because they have no concept of the depravity of our species.

Why would pediatricians now want to continue injecting children with a known nerve poison?

When she thinks of the toxins built up inside of her from so many years of eating carelessly, of the resentment that has grown steadily over fifteen years of marriage, of the stretch marks and...

I think it will be good for Henderson children because we need help everywhere we can get it in the community. The children are growing, but the community isn’t growing fast enough for the kids,...

I’ve found what makes children happy doesn’t always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.

Nearly all problems of human behavior stem from our failure to ensure that people live in environments that nurture their well-being.

We have the right and the responsibility to be intolerant of those things which should not be tolerated.

I’m the top of my class, auntie, thank you, and I am very good. And now let us have a little talk about you, aunt, dear. How much money have you got, and have you...

We think of communication as words. But a screaming child is trying to say something. A tantrum carries a message. Hitting is communication. Sleep patterns carry a message. Even the sulky belligerence of a teen...

You stupid piece of warm bacon.

We are not sure what we will become, only what we want to and don’t want to. We often become what we never thought we could, then we become fine with that.

I will not miss him.” But her eyes told the real story.

Children, as persons, are entitled to the greatest respect. Children are given to us as free-flying souls, but then we clip their wings like we domesticate the wild mallard. Children should become the role-models for...

Every child needs a champion.

It’s good to go over with children what to do if they’re in a situation like this.

This generation seems to see children as a financial burden and responsibility to be avoided.

Children are God’s way of letting us know His work will continue, even long after we are gone.

I`ve got a black woolen hat and it`s got Pervert written across the front of it. It`s the name of the clothing label. And I was with my wife and my baby at the supermarket...

Kids are naturally curious about the world around them. Everything is fascinating and holds their attention as they explore their new surroundings. Adults however, have grown up hearing the word ‘no’, ‘don’t do that,’ and...

Children are meant to understand compassion and comfort because they have received compassion and comfort – and this should be in the family setting. A family should be a place where comfort is experienced and...

Sam, Sam, quite contrary,bought a budgie,wanted a canary.Sam, Sam, quite contrary, kissed Suzannah,meant to kiss Marry.Sam, Sam, quite contrary,dressed as a pirate,playing a fairy.Sam Sam quite contrary,ate dark chocolate,says he likes diary.Sam, Sam, quite contarary,shaved...

Jack: Atticus, you’ve never laid a hand on her.Atticus: I admit that. So far I’ve been able to get by with threats. Jack, she minds me as well as she can. Doesn’t come up to...

i am happy that to have or not to have a “leffe” is not the need of the hour in my mid thirthies. A liittle bit of more lighthearted luff left.

The best part about having children is being able to point at them and proudly proclaim, “Hey, I made those.

Fairy tales don’t tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.

And as they spoke – lo and behold! – there was a knock at the door, and there stood a small, stout figure dressed in rusty black; and she said, ‘Good evening, Mr and Mrs...

We watch them grow, with sadness and amazement and fear. We have stepped away, but not entirely away. They know this. They sense it. We are no longer here, but we are not yet gone....

We have to actually choose a name,” Kane murmured above her head. “We can’t keep calling him ‘baby.’ When he’s fifteen he might resent it.

Never have children, only grand children.

Today’s vote to raise the cigarette tax was a clear sign of support for our state’s children, both for their health and their education. It’s also a victory for tens of thousands of Texans of...

How should a system convince people that they do not possess their sex properly? Teach them that in their possession it is shapeless and unconditioned. Only once it has been modified, layered with experts, honeycombed...

their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals.

This indicates an endemic problem. There’s a discounting of children. Robert did exactly what he was taught to do.

A child of God, special possession.

I remember us saying that we liked small houses, that proximity engendered closeness in a family. That nobody should be raised by a nanny or in day care. I remember us saying that time, not...

Many Iraqis believe that psychologists treat crazy people. For this reason, they don?t bring their children in for treatment.

The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children

Yesterday, Amelia and Kit came over for supper, and we took a blanket down to the beach afterward to watch the moon rise. Kit loves to do that, but she always falls asleep before it...

The best way to encourage your children is to let them know you are praying for them.

Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?

so that it isn’t upsetting to anybody. It’s something we’ve always known about fairy tales – they talk about incest, the Oedipus complex, about psychotic mothers, like those of Snow White and Hansel and Gretel,...

Dogs are like kids. Cats are like roommates.

A lot of gyms are realizing their new demographic includes teens and children.

There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of...

Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly.

We are accustomed to repeating the cliché, and to believing, that ‘our most precious resource is our children.’ But we have plenty of children to go around, God knows, and as with Doritos, we can...