It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek...

Even with my deepest soul I knew too well that all of these were just a stairs to heaven.

Parenting has nothing to do with perfection. Perfection isn’t even the goal, not for us, not for our children. Learning together to live well in an imperfect world, loving each other despite or even because...

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.

Paganism is the default of most children, since they excel at magical thinking.

And a mother without children is not a mother at all, and if I am not a mother, than I am nothing. Nothing. I am like sugar dissolved in a glass of water. Or, I...

John and I noticed that whenever we talked about our children Wystan reached for his cats.

Symptoms that might be easy to see in an adult – like one-sided weakness – aren’t easily recognized in children.

What would your shoes say about the things you do everyday?

Children are infinitely credulous. My Lisa was a dull child, but even so she came up with things that pleased and startled me. ‘Are there dragons?’ she asked. I said that there were not. ‘Have...

Gin a body meet a bodyComing thro’ the rye,Gin a body kiss a body— Need a body cry?

death play” of popular video games is accelerating these numbers to ever-higher levels.

I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.

There is not so much comfort in the having of children as there is sorrow in parting with them

You must feed them, Anne, else they eat their toys.

A lot of people believe that mental illness does not affect our children within the school system. But the truth is that a lot of bullying stems from untreated or poorly treated mental and behavioral...

And the sun on the wall of her room, the block of sun with all the tiny flying things in it. When she was little she thought they were the souls of dead insects, still...

So many people think that they are not gifted because they don’t have an obvious talent that people can recognize because it doesn’t fall under the creative arts category—writing, dancing, music, acting, art or singing....

We call them grunters. They’re ghost hunters but grunters is more appropriate because most of them are pigs.

…while God has done his part in creating a world capable of providing what we need, we have not done our part in the stewardship of it, in seeing that it gets to the end...

We have lots of unions who are planning to strike, so, I mean, adults striking from their work. And that is so incredibly important to show that this is such an — this is not...

Use condoms; it’s wise not to gamble with your children’s future.