As he shut the door, he was painfully aware that they were each talking about their young–only Wrath’s had four paws and a tail.Least he didn’t have to worry about George succeeding him or being...

supplying enough of the right resources for the child protection system to carry out its three-fold mission (protecting children, preserving families and providing permanent homes for children.)

A good example is the best gift you can offer to your children. In your absence, your example is present, which means you are present always!

We estimate that tens of thousands more children will die worldwide and some 10 million people are likely to be living below the poverty line of $1 a day because of the terrorist attacks.

Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven’t grown out of enjoying the strange and weird.

A child, like your stomach, doesn’t need all you can afford to give it.

Mom actually said that?” Cassie’s face shown with happiness. “She always hated my math!””Nah,” Martin said. “She was just being that way for you. She thought it was what you needed to hear. If parents...

How does it feel to have a daughter?- At times it’s like holding a warm egg in my hand.

I asked if she wanted kids. She said her clock is ticking. I said, That’s because I set it five minutes ahead when you weren’t looking.

Being a parent is a gift, one which most men unselfishly allow women to keep all to themselves.

Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing — by dint of ignorance and innocence — that beneath this unbearable contract of guilt and blame there is always an older contract that may bind...

Good evening, children,’ Said Nurse Matilda, and she gave a loud thump on the floor with her big black stick. ‘I am Nurse Matilda.

The lives of infected children are completely dependent on social welfare and support.

You’re my life, Elle. When we have our children, they’ll be included in that circle and I’m not a man to lose everything. I want you as safe as possible.””So you don’t think three protection...

I believe in giving as honest an answer as I can. Because perhaps if people spent more time being honest with each other, especially with children, there would be less unhappiness in the world.

Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.

that a child is not an event, alleged or otherwise, a mistake or accident or crime. . . he is by definition more than this, sum rather than division, a living promissory note.

It feels good to have parents, but it feels even better to not have an evil one.

A child whose life is full of the threat and fear of punishment is locked into babyhood. There is no way for him to grow up, to learn to take responsibility for his life and...

Children are adorable.

Memory loss is the key to human reproduction. If you remembered what new parenthood was actually like you wouldn’t go around lying to people about how wonderful it is, and you certainly wouldn’t ever do...

Children in Iraq are seriously suffering psychologically with all the insecurity, especially with the fear of kidnapping and explosions. In some cases, they?re found to be suffering extreme stress.

I know it’s hard when other children are called home but we can find purpose and good in all things when we can see things from the Lord’s perspective. There is goodness to be found...

They were young; time hadn’t yet rubbed at them, polishing their differences and sharpening their opinions…

A child’s imagination can be found in the heart of a good book.

That was the tricky part. You poured inordinate amounts of time and attention and affection into your kids, but the result was indirect. You didn’t point out a cat to your one-year-old and then watch...

Our children form a large part of our Immortality Project. This is one of the reasons a child’s death cuts so deep; some of the future dies with them. Through them and their descendants, part...

Suddenly, the shadow disappeared through the wall! Maybe the shadow disappeared again.Can we please go back home now?I really don’t like it here & I’m scared! Julia pleaded.The shadow was standing by a very small...

And the others too were beginning to remark in Swann that abnormal, excessive, shameful and deserved senescence of bachelors, of all those for whom it seems that the great day which knows no morrow must...

We are all born rude. No infant has ever appeared yet with the grace to understand how inconsiderate it is to disturb others in the middle of the night.

Children have but little charity for each other’s defects.

Do you think I am happy to work like this? I want to earn some living to feed my children,

Never go down to the darkest room. Stay far away from the rotting coffin. If you want to live through the night, let the devil sleep.

Every mother can easily imagine losing a child. Motherhood is always half loss anyway. The three-year-old is lost at five, the five-year-old at nine. We consort with ghosts, even as we sit and eat with,...

It will be a fight. Children don’t have a lobbyist, so it’s difficult to see progress in this area. But Governor Blagojevich, without doubt, is the biggest children’s champion we have.

I felt empty a lot and I sometimes had a sense—and I know this sounds strange—that I really had no existence as my own person, that I could disappear and no one would notice or...

World is brighter with the happiness of children.

Some scientists were conducting an experiment, he said, trying to gauge the impact of abuse on children. Ducks, like people, develop bonds between mother and young. They call it imprinting. So the scientists set out...

Dating a wo/man with a child is adoption … without the paperwork.

You have to be grateful to existence that it has chosen you to be a passage for a few beautiful children. But you are not to interfere in their growth, in their potential. You are...

Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and wish you’d just stayed in bed?

Wer für Kinder schreibt, übt den Beruf des Schriftstellers unter erschwerten Bedingungen aus, und dies freiwillig … Wer für Erwachsene schreibt, schreibt ausschließlich für Erwachsene. Wer für Kinder schreibt, schreibt automatisch für Erwachsene mit.”[As quoted...

Were up to our necks in deficit spending. Were piling up billions more in debt that our children and grandchildren will have to pay,

A man’s immortality can be found in his children.

Give the child a taste of meditation by creating a climate and atmosphere of love, acceptance and silence.

And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence...

A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim parents. This latter nomenclature, by the way, would be an excellent piece of...

We were told the disability assistance is for the needy but I don’t know who needs more than our children. That is discriminatory and that is victimization.

Sometimes, she wondered what she was missing, if her life was somehow incomplete because she didn’t see the reflection of her face in the face of a son or daughter. Maybe. That’s what mothers told...

We were young, she continued, while she had a bad heart. Did we not want to earn our tips, she asked us and, cowed, we refrained from introducing the subject again.Her bad heart, I noticed,...