The fear of kidnapping has been the main reason for learning deficiencies, especially among children whose parents are government employees or high-ranking professionals like doctors and teachers.

Sum of life; Birth, childhood, youth, adulthood, parenthood, old age and death.

To abandon a child, she had once said to someone, when she thought Cassandra couldn’t hear, was an act so cold, so careless, it refused forgiveness.

The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.

A nursery rhyme shapes your bones and nerves, and it shapes your mind. They are powerful, nursery rhymes, and immensely old, and not toys, even though they are for children.” “But they make no sense!”...

We find that children as young as two are making decisions about what they want. They can’t quite say it but by the time they’re five they’re pretty clear.

Wow!” gasped Julia. They saw 20 or more young children of every sort lyingon the cold, bare ground.

What is a parent, really, but somebody who picks up the things a child leaves behind – a trail made of stripped off clothing, orphaned shoes, tiny bright plastic game pieces, and nostalgia – and...

I’m glad I didn’t [have children] when I was younger because I don’t think I could have given so much of myself to it, … I think I would have been more selfish. I’m really...

Tell me,’ the man leans forward ans says, ‘have you heard of a lady called Madeleine? No? In 1996, this lady named Albright Madeleine, the US ambassador to the United Nations, was asked on television...

Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn’t possibly happen.

But mostly because he could be himself – never needing to bend.

Children are a burden to a mother, but not the way a heavy box is to a mule. Our children weight hard on my heart, and thinking about them growing up honest and healthy, or...

Every kid’s afraid of that right? That someday you’ll be left in a corner, like a toy, staring with button eyes and a broken heart.

A street where there are no children playing is a dead street!

For one, we’re just expanding an already-existing restriction. And, secondly, it’s all about the safety of children.

A ‘white’ kid that asks too many questions is called *curious.* A ‘black’ kid that asks too many questions is called *forward.*

The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young.

She moved to pinch me again but I blocked her hand. I’m no expert on girls, but when one tries to pinch you four times, I’m pretty sure that’s flirting.

Ich habe die Überzeugung gewonnen, dass Kinder das beste und klügste Publikum sind, das man sich als Geschichtenerzähler nur wünschen kann. Kinder sind strenge, unbestechliche Kritiker.”[As quoted on Preußler’s official website.]

True Courage is when you are afraid of something but go through with it anyway

All life is rife with possibilities. Seeds have possibilities, but all their tomorrows are caught by the patterning of their life cycle. Animals have possibilities that are greater than that of a fir tree or...

one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill.

What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear...

Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.

I want to see the violence in Haiti stopped. Innocent people, innocent children are getting hurt and killed every day.

Don’t stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people can be trusted, that...

What we instill in our children will be the foundation upon which they build their future.

Having children is like living in a frat house – nobody sleeps, everything’s broken, and there’s a lot of throwing up.

If the children and youth of a nation are afforded opportunity to develop their capacities to the fullest, if they are given the k nowledge to understand the world and the wisdom to change it,...

I played with children so that I could learn from them.

Mandy smiled cheerfully at an overweight kid in a gold sweater and pink skirt who was chasing her little brother around along the boardwalk. When she was that age, on sunny days she’d be out...

It’s a mother’s greatest privilege to give birth, to raise a child. But a woman’s greatest honor is to look at her son with pride and know that she’s helped him become a man.

I have heard them preach, when I sat in the pew and my feet did not touch the floor, about the final home of the unconverted. In order to impress upon the children the length...

He sensed Death with a depth and clarity of which only small children or great philosophers are capable, philosophers who are themselves almost childlike in the power and simplicity of their thinking.

Rocco was gripped with the panic he often experienced around her, around himself. He seemed to be both here now and simultaneously five years in the future looking back at this moment, at the loss...

They had laid the tender, down-ruffled little bird on a platter and appeared now to be pondering a way to eat out its heart without causing it distress.

The ritual sacrifice of children has been taboo for thousands of years. Yet tragically it is practiced every day across our world. We sacrifice children on the altars of our most destructive sins. When the...

I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you’ve given me the nomination I feel that I am one.

Her gaze shifted away. “I don’t remember my dreams anymore.” It was like she was confessing a dirty secret. And maybe it was, because even though he hated the dreams, each time he had them,...

Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature’s unpredictable creatures.

The biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make while doing this. I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured...

Einem Kind die Erziehung zu verweigern grenzte in meinen Augen an Misshandlung.

I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.

You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don’t stay children forever. No one magically...

We have to be conscious of the fact that it’s a captive audience. There are going to be children. There are going to be customers with sensitivities to violence and strong material.

Go tell your father about it.”They leave. I inhale the lavender mist. Slather bubbles over my skin. Five more minutes … And, next time, I shall lock the door.

Children make your lives a mess and set your priorities straight.

The child’s laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.

Just as we have created a society in which it would be unthinkable to light up a cigarette in the Kennedy Center lobby, we can create a society where it is unthinkable that a child...