A blown kiss is not a proper kiss. Hugs and kisses should be hugs and kisses, not breaths of air. I am tired of breaths of air and not enough hugs and kisses.

The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.

A boy trudged down the sidewalk dragging a fishing pole behind him. A man stood waiting with his hands on his hips. Summertime, and his children played in the front yard with their friend, enacting...

Always believe in good and happiness. Never except “I can’t” Always say I can..

If kids six and under eat free, then I’m an infant. Or at least infantile. Bring on the steaks.

The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons, but children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.

The Agency was doubtful, because they had already sent a lot of nurses and nannies and governesses to Mr. and Mrs. Brown’s family. ‘The person you want,’ they said, ‘is Nurse Matilda.

And here is my sweet little Annamaria,’ she added, tenderly caressing a little girl of three years old, who had not made a noise for the last two minutes; ‘And she is always so gentle...

Parents, … …are locked in a losing competition with culture to raise our children.

When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do our own ability to nourish our babies, we lose a chance to claim an aspect of our power as women. Thinking that baby...

There are grandchildren everywhere. Children have needs all over this county. I know it becomes more important when it’s your children . . .

It’s the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don’t say a word, they don’t hide under the table, they eat only one piece of chocolate at a time. But later on, they...

I love children. Eating them, that is.

You need a husband and some babies to look after. Otherwise you’re going to grow up into a virago…

God’s greatest blessing; gift of children.

I wondered then why children played so in the river, but adults ceased to see it with the same eyes. Why couldn’t we embrace such simple joys?

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

Our children continue to be healthier … because our infant and adolescent mortality rates continue to decline,

I don’t know as much about children as I would like to. I am godmother to a wonderful three-year-old boy named dominic, the son of my friend Sophie. They live in Scotland, near Oban, and...

The innocence of such children doesn’t answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to dispel them. That is the secret to family life.

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

Tus hijos no son tus hijos son hijos e hijas de la vida deseosa de si misma. No vienen de ti, sino a través de ti y aunque estén contigo no te pertenecen. Puedes darles...

When Mikolay and Julia are not at school, they usually go exploring and adventuring. Mikolay’s and Julia’s mummies are both witches and are in charge of fixing things.

Even if we have grown so far apart that we don’t recognize each other when we pass, we have this life, this block of time, and what do you think about that?

My demons creep like a pedo in a park full of kids. Each one reminding me of the consequences, what I didn’t do, or did.

I left a note for my mother. I always leave a note for my mother when I am on a case.

For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into half halves – to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it out-of-place to even so much as mention Him...

İki tip çocuk vardı: Biri sonuna kadar gözyaşlarına boğulmayı tercih eder, ama tabağındaki pırasayı yemeye mahkum olur. Diğeri ise ne yapacağını biliyordur. Küçük, anlaşılmayacak bir samimiyete indirgenmiş ani bir kusma refleksi ve patates kızartması beş...

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children’s eyes.

Children need to see that they are part of a history and that the story of their family is a living thing. God tells it, a new story in each generation, and each must hold...

Then there are all of those children, the ones who aren’t resilient. The ones who slowly, quietly die. I think the difference is that the kids who bounce back learn to bear a little bit...

Poor or rich, black or white, quiet or naughty, mentally defective or sharp-witted, thin or fat, all children are great!

Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.

NEVER EVER STAY IN AN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR CHILDREN. That is the worst thing one can ever do. It is better for a child to live with one Good Parent than...

Innocence ain’t all it’s cracked up to be, you know. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies, because they don’t know any better. That’s innocence.

The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child’s hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

We must trust that what we’re doing has a purpose. We must realize that we’re not here to make kids conform or perform, but that we’re here to help them to develop their own unique...

Trains and boxcars and the smell of coal and fire are not ugly to children. Ugliness is a concept that we happen on later and become self-conscious about.

You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.

I love that neighborhood, … We can walk the streets in the evening and my children can play outside. I feel safer there than anywhere I’ve lived in along time. But I’ll have to have...

A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.

Basically, they ‘ re looking for families with children because it ‘ s going to be a little harder for them to get on their feet,

God is building a mighty army to vanquish the forces of darkness. These soldiers of the light are initially conceived and nurtured in the wombs of women. As such, an obvious strategy for the devil...

Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.

We are no longer worried that children are missing school because of video games, though. We are worried that they are murdering their classmates because of video games.

These young-marrying, contemporaries or juniors of the Beat Generation, have often expressed themselves as follows: “My highest aim in life is to achieve a normal healthy marriage and raise healthy [non-neurotic] children.” On the face...

…the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.

I couldn’t imagine leaving a child. Not because it was unthinkable, but because I couldn’t imagine having a child to leave.

The most out-there thing I’m saying is, ‘Don’t have babies. Don’t get married and have kids. Have a larger life than that.