Thoughts are such fleet magic things. Betsy’s thoughts swept a wide arc while Uncle Keith read her poem aloud. She thought of Julia learning to sing with Mrs. Poppy. She thought of Tib learning to...

I believe, as followers of Christ, we are commanded to reach out to the least of these in the name of Jesus and show them they matter a great deal to God, who sacrificed His...

Independance grows out of a child’s faith that her source of security will always be there when she needs it.

Eis Izras” three times. The door opened at once, unfortunately making lots of noise and waking the humans up. Mikolay knew a few powerful hexes and he was able to create small flying dragons. He...

He brought back some photos of a Navajo rodeo. There were some rather marvelous shots of children and we discussed doing a story about cowboy kids. Before I committed to this, I wanted to make...

In a child’s eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power...

Children and fools always speak the truth.

Life, Rose well knew, could throw some hard punches at you, but nothing hurt as much as losing a child, or seeing one of your children hurt and suffering. Becoming a parent changed you forever,...

All creatures have a sense of territory – except children.

Kids didn’t have huge backpacks when I was their age. We didn’t have backpacks at all. Now it seemed all the kids had them. You saw little second-graders bent over like sherpas, dragging themselves through...

If parents don’t want to hear the truth, children learn not to speak it.

a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.

All children are curious and I wonder by what process this trait becomes developed in some and suppressed in others. I suspect again that schools and colleges help in the suppression insofar as they meet...

When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children

This is not a contest with your child. The winner is not the one with more points. The winner is the one whose child still loves them when they graduate from high school.

Parents are starting to understand that this could be one of the tools for (their children) to get an education. Every kid knows that that’s an opportunity for them to get off the island and...

A lot has changed for me. My life has improved. It’s not only children, but the relationship with my wife is the best thing that ever happened to me.

You cannot sacrifice the world for your children.

The most precious gift that you can give to the child is unconditional love and acceptance, which allows the child to discover his own inner being, his authentic self, his freedom to be himself.

And the end of this paradox is that only when the child is thus free can he have the proper attachment to his parents; only when we allow his independence can he then freely offer...

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.

The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.

What if the actual sin was that despite the fact of knowing how cruel and unfair this world is; we still bring children to life?

Children’s SongWe live in our own world,A world that is too smallFor you to stoop and enterEven on hands and knees,The adult subterfuge.And though you probe and pryWith analytic eye,And eavesdrop all our talkWith an...

In the midst of the vagaries of life, they provide us a trip to the land of goodness and fairies, of imaginations and possibilities.A childhood that wasn’t spent watching cartoons or reading comic strips, no...

We think it makes constitutional sense and common sense to protect our children from exposure to senseless, graphic violence that has no purpose other than to appeal to baser instincts.

Sometimes I wait at the bottom of those dark stairs, I sit at the bottom of the stairs, I wait beyond the bottom of the stairs and listen to the sounds my wife and children...

I use Fiction to face Reality And write sweet Stories to avoid the bitter ones.

If the bible be true, God commanded his chosen people to destroy men simply for the crime of defending their native land. They were not allowed to spare trembling and white-haired age, nor dimpled babes...

You will never know the moon or stars, unless you breathe in their solar system and inspect it from many diverse vantage points as possible.

They play in the Meadow. The dancing girl with the dark hair and blue eyes. The boy with blond curls and gray eyes, struggling to keep up with her on his chubby toddler legs. It...

In the next couple of years children of the baby boomers will be looking for rentals.

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.

The secret of happiness lies in the lifestyle of a child who lives in present; past and future are only the grammar thing for him.

Most parents want to know what they can do to make their children do as they’re told,

Education of children, especially girls, is the cornerstone to national progress,

Children learn eagerly and well when they have need of the knowledge.

I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the color of gold....

Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child I had been coddled a good deal (also scolded). I was awkward, precocious,...

They were amazing, fierce, beautiful children.

Kids are important. The most important thing.

The fact is that Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable-even legally actionable-to Westerners. Chinese mothers can say to their daughters, “Hey fatty-lose some weight.” By contrast, Western parents have to tiptoe around...

We don’t teach our children that healthy relationships involve drunken, naked parties in a hot tub with strangers – but that’s what they see when they turn on `The Real World,’ … When they’re fed...

Eventually kids become grown-ups too, and from there, the world is whatever they choose to make of it.

The importance of the findings is that the number of uninsured children is a reasonable number that we are in a position to fully cover.

Children must be taught that they are worth being heard, being saved and being loved.

Shall I tell her? Shall I be a kind and merciful narrator and take our girl aside? Shall I touch her new, red heart and make her understand that she is no longer one of...