Corruption isn’t a natural disaster. It is the cold, calculated theft of opportunity from the men, women and children who are least able to protect themselves.

Nimewapa watoto wangu kila kitu katika maisha isipokuwa umaskini. Lakini bado wamenishinda.

I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story is not intended for them. I am telling it to...

And if you are a mom who has watched your child’s father leave, my heart goes out to you. I also pray that you had no part in it. I pray that you didn’t make...

I’ve seen some children that can talk and communicate a little. And I’ve seen others that are totally laid out. They have no movement. They can’t do anything by themselves. Literally, if they’re 8 years...

DOSTIE: Let’s be honest here. People? Sometimes they suck. But kids, well, they’re like a new snowfall, you know?

Is the spring coming?” he said. “What is it like?”…”It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine…

The marriage of a Jewish son is a bittersweet prospect. There is relief, always, that he has navigated the tantalizing and plentiful assemblies of non-Jewish women to whom the children of the Diaspora are inevitably...

Nothing’s really changed since then, except that now any children we have might be wizards themselves, and I’ll be hopelessly outnumbered.

When we are no longer children we are already dead

Everything that isn’t gospel is law. Let us say it again: Everything that isn’t gospel is law. Every way we try to make our kids good that isn’t rooted in the good news of the...

And much like the despairity of the woman who can never bear children, my dreams can never bear fruit. They are the mountains I can never climb.The hurdles I can never leap.The seas I can...

It makes no sense rushing to become a parent if you are not going to be a good one. No child deserves anything less than unconditional love and positive guidance. Our nation and the world...

I’ve told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

Attachment parenting, Sears writes, “immunizes children against many of the social and emotional diseases which plague our society,” producing children who are “compassionate,” “caring,” “admirable,” “affectionate,” “confident,” and “accomplished” (“faster than a speeding bullet,” “more...

You are not too small. No one is ever too small to offer help.

I had a dream about you. You had hair like dandelion blowball, and I was one hurricane sneeze away from making you bald. You may have been in danger of losing your hair, but at...

The role of godly parents is to make sure that the hearts and minds of their children are saturated with the Word of God.

While you may be able to keep your son Jimmy from owning [a gun], if you try to talk him out of wanting one, you are up against a pretty strong argument: You mean I...

Even their insistence on educating their children, the last reflex of any exploited group before it sank into submission, marked the end of their resistance.

We are in fact treating violent media like tobacco, and other products that pose a risk to our children.

We should teach our kids that they’re blessing and not a burden and that they’re valuable beyond what they can imagine – in God’s eyes, in the world’s eyes – that they’re purpose is so...

But that did no harm, and a sad young mind found a way to match things up with an antagonist. Now, just stand a child up against your body. How tall is it? Possibly only...

When Jordan was a baby he sat on top of me much as a fly rests on a hill of dung. And I nourished him as a hill of dung nourishes a fly, and when...

There were a lot of these middle-aged single types in the neighborhood, shipwrecked by every kind of catastrophe, but she was one of the few who didn’t have children, who lived alone, who was still...

Children, like God, see only our actions.

No skill is more crucial to the future of a child than literacy.

I just can’t think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already… It’s too upsetting for me to write about them. Naturally, I still hope, and wait, wait, wait.

There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.

How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.” ~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta

I bambini sono senza passato ed è questo tutto il mistero dell’innocenza magica del loro sorriso…

Your typical Six-year-old is a paradoxical little person, and bipolarity is the name of his game.

It still remains unrecognised, that to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind, is a...

The room was full of magical objects, animals, photographs, paintings, strange looking plants and many flying books. I only found this room a few days ago and it seems that it keeps changing every time...

We pretend that we know our children, because it’s easier than admitting the truth–from the minute that cord is cut, they are strangers. It’s far easier to tell yourself your daughter is still a little...

Then I say, “Let’s go and brush our teeth.” So Lola says, “But Charlie, I can’t brush my teeth because somebody is using my tooth.” “But who would use your toothbrush?” I ask. Lola says...

Small children are capable of great love. Love that overwhelms. Love that changes small worlds completely. Dangerous feelings that blot out everything.

It really takes a village. We’re all responsible for all children.

Das mine!’ protested Ava, Bennie’s daughter, affirming Alex’s recent theory that language acquisition involved a phase of speaking German. She snatched a plastic skillet away from his own daughter, Cara-Ann, who lurched after it, roaring,...

His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.

If I were flying, I would travel to a perfect place. A place with frosted cakes and beautiful flowers and excellent trees to climb and absolutely no doldrums.

Een kleinkind mag je verwennen, een kind moet je opvoeden.

These are strong advocates for children and for community involvement. They share our vision for Denver Public Schools.

shouting about how he did not want his future children to be eating sushi and fancy French food – he wanted proper American food and he wanted a wife who could do her own cooking.

For their holidays: the rich go see the world; the poor go see their parents.

Designing for children carries a social responsibility beyond bright colors and scaled-down furnishings that only perceptive and informed grown-ups can understand.

Someday my children will look fondly on the annoying things I did and see them clearly as evidence of love.

you gotta stay with him because he needs you and he has been your husband for 20 years for heaven sakes. You just have to work to love him more and so on.” This is...

The poet believed that ‘Beauty’ first entered the world not at its creation, nor with the first garden, the first sunrise, the birth of the first man and woman and their first sexual act. The...

Mother’s arms are made of tenderness, and sweet sleep blesses the child who lies within.