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...

OUr past doesn’t define us. It prepares us.

One of the chief paradoxes of our culture [is] that the welfare of its children, its _future_, is placed almost exclusively in the hands of people of low status, a class it holds in contempt.

The child’s existence turned a plain world to riches. Her life raised up like this, the child giving point and purpose to each day, the care of him transforming her, widening and deepening her.

I believe there is a hero in each of us. The best books are the ones that remind us of who we already are and empower us to embrace our own story.

But our forest is sacred & magical with many unusual creatures & plants.We don’t want people to destroy everything!

Sometimes parents don’t find what they’re looking for it their child, so they plant seeds for what they’d like to grow there instead. I’ve witnessed this with the former hockey player who takes his son...

Individuality, family, and community are, by definition, expressions of singular organization, never of “one-right-way” thinking on the grand scale. Children and families need some relief from government surveillance and intimidation if original expressions belonging to...

Children’s liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

For Parents: Never blame or scold a child for their first mistake after all family is the first school from where a child learns.

You won’t get love from a child if you don’t give love.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

I will teach my daughter to color outside the lines, to make mistakes, to take risks, and not be afraid to fail. I will teach her that even when the world tries to knock her...

At a certain point in her life, she realises it is not so much that she wants to have a child as that she does not want not to have a child, or not to...

There would be times in the years to come when he ( Murphy ) would accompany me back and forth between the two worlds I’d come to know. Other times, Yipes would venture out over...

I mean, what do people talk about when they’re married?” “Their kids, I guess.” “Maybe that’s all they have in common.

To know what should be going on in a household: spend a few minutes with the wife, or, the husband. To know what’s really going on: spend a few minutes with their kid(s).

Anthropologists say that in every culture in history, children have played the game hide and seek.

Miller Place argues they do fine. Maybe they do since many of their children go to pre-school. But not all kids in Miller Place went to pre-school. We want to close the education gap ?...

Children are prophets of nature.

There are good books which are only for adults.There are no good books which are only for children.

Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling beganto affect the netting under which the three children lay.It consisted of a multitude of dull scratches which produced a metallicsound, as if claws and...

Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even...

Fantasy isn’t about escape; it’s a survival mechanism. It’s a way to deal with things that are so much bigger than you are. So I think fantasy is special, something to be cherished and protected...

Pirate Captain Jim”Walk the plank,” says Pirate Jim”But Captain Jim, I cannot swim.””Then you must steer us through the gale.””But Captain Jim, I cannot sail.””Then down with the galley slaves you go.””But Captain Jim, I...

It isn’t the amount you spend today, it’s what you want to invest in for the future!

Your child’s needs are far more profound than his aberrant behavior. Remember, his behavior does not just spring forth uncaused. His behavior – the things he says and does – reflects his heart. If you...

Our children belong to God. We’re only given them on loan from heaven. Sometimes God calls them home sooner tan we expected.

A tried and true way to get your children interested in books and reading is to read to them when they are young.