I would never think of doing a movie for children if I did not have any, … A lot of things in the film I know about. I relate to all the sufferings much more...

[C]hildren were a much more difficult audience than adults because no on had yet had a chance to teach them that it was better to be polite than honest.

Our children are regularly asked very detailed questions about their personal lives and parents are seldom notified. Too often these surveys are worded in ways that nearly encourage … unhealthy behaviors.

There are not seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.

All these candidates talk about children,

Recognizing that God has called you to function as his agent defines your task as a parent. Our culture has reduced parenting to providing care. Parents often see the task in these narrow terms. The...

God sends little children to speak and act for him. In their simplicity and naivety they say and do things that we adults never would, but which can reveal deep truths about the way the...

Non lasciare che qualcuno cerchi di convincerti che i bambini non si portino dietro i loro rancori nella vita da adulti.

The creative adult is the child who survived after the world tried killing them, making them grown up. The creative adult is the child who survived the blandness of schooling, the unhelpful words of bad...

We made that decision based on the educational needs of the children. We did not want to sacrifice four days of those kids’ academic lives.

Dress well because you can; not because its a choice imposed you.

It’s quite sad that so many children go through life unsure whether their parents love them or not.

So if I speak to you, Tutor Olana, will you get the lashes?

Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and skepticism of adulthood. Embrace the moment before it escapes from...

Glimmer, I hear someone call her – ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous …

No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine. […]To drive children into labour is to slaughter artists, to scour deathly all wonder, the flickering dart of imagination eager as...

Shall I confess it, Mr. Hartright? I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature’s only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.

There’s no reason I should sit around and wait for something like this to happen to my children, … I want to help other families bring their children home.

Sometimes we have to put our foot down, … but before we deliberately make children unhappy in order to get them to get into the car, or to do their homework or whatever, we need...

Meeting the Millennium Development Goals depends on reaching vulnerable children throughout the developing world.

The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.

This water was indeed a different thing from ordinary nourishment. Its sweetness was born of the walk under the stars, the song of the pulley, the effort of my arms. It was good for the...

The little prince went away, to look again at the roses.”You are not at all like my rose,” he said. “As yet, you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no...

Four years after my father’s death, when the subject of parents came up in conversation i would relate the information in a flat, matter-of-fact tone eager to detect in my listener the flinch of grief...

My father believes with his entire soul that the meek shall inherit the earth. My children will inherit the earth but they will not be meek.

I’m not holding myself out as a model, but I do believe that we in America can ask more of children than we typically do, and they will not only respond to the challenge, but...

Children. For all of the times that you miss out on things you’d like to do because of them, there are an equal number of excuses they offer to get out of things you’d like...

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated...

If history repeats itself, I am so getting a dinosaur!

When it comes to the education of our young, this privilege should only be given to those whose visions are solely in the uplifting benefit of the child. There is no room for the ego...

Children are natural practitioners of the Queer and the Questing, for childhood is nothing but a quest through a queer country. Of course, they often have a good deal of trouble with the Quiet.

Pais que não conhecem a si mesmo não são capazes de evitar a reprodução, em seus filhos, de suas disfunções

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Ikiwa huna pesa na una mke na watoto kwa mfano, mke wako (wanawake walio wengi) hatakuona wa maana kwa sababu ya ustawi wa maisha ya familia yake. Ikiwa una mwanamke asiyekuwa na busara au hekima...

After all I’ve done for you’ has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.

Loving my son, building my son, touching my son, playing with my son, being with my son… these aren’t tasks that only super dads can perform. These are tasks that every dad should perform. Always....

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

Women want respect but are let down by those of them who don’t respect themselves. Several men use this as an excuse to disrespect women. We are born with this as the norm and not...

You know, Dorothy, you can’t let people bring you down so easily or you’ll have your nose in the dirt for the rest of your life. From what I make of it, for every person...

Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.

The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it’s rarely a straight line.

The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.

Children in the developing world may respond differently.

I think children want to believe that they can be heroes too.

There were still few rules at Down House, and Charles was not very good at enforcing the ones he and Emma did make. This was well known among his children. In 1855, when Lenny was...

Kids are a pain in the ass.

It was interesting. Isabelle thought, the children that chose you. Some come through your body; others came in cars in the middle of the night.

I have hunger.

This book is not about “homeschooling” at all. School is an artificial institution contrived by man. This book is about educating a child in the heart of the family given to that child by his...

Model the qualities that you want your children to show to each other.