know a lot of people who hide out in fantasy because reality is too hard to cope with […] Fantasy isn’t about escape; it’s a survival mechanism. It’s a way to deal with things that...

I worry about exposing him to bands like Journey, the appreciation of which will surely bring him nothing but the opprobrium of his peers. Though he has often been resistant – children so seldom know...

This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.

Children needed love, a reliable source of comfort, and an adult willing to take responsibility for them.

Children are a battle of a different sort. … A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.

60% of children are born to unwed mothers. I should start pulling out.

Do not throw me out. Please.

I’m going to name my firstborn son 0123456789, because I want him to learn to count before he learns the alphabet. And my second son I’ll call 01, because I want him to get into...

The literature of childhood abounds with evidence that the peaks of a child’s experience are not visits to the cinema, or even family outings to the sea, but occasions when he escapes into places that...

When a baby is born the mother in particular enters into a new larger relationship with the world. She has become connected to all people. She is part of keeping us on earthnot the “us”...

We have had several reports of children being shot by them.

When my children complain that I’m forgetful, I remind them that DAD is just ADD spelled sideways.

Milton’s learned vocabulary […] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintelligibility of the parents’ speech as heard by the child.

If you would only stop rating a child’s ability by your own; and try to find out just what ability a child has, our young folks throughout this big world would show a surprisingly willing...

Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the love that sets.

Children have their own kind of power. When you’re teaching them, protecting them, you are more than you thought you could be. More understanding, more patient, more capable, more wise.

Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That’s positive reinforcement for negative behavior.

I have no heroes except flowers and children.

I’m so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, ‘Mom! Turn the music down!

At first parenthood was as I had expected, exhausting, sometimes heinous, and occasionally divine. I held my children close enough to feel them breathe, laugh, swallow.

He was taking a leap here, negotiating with a crackhead, under the table, in a dark cantina. The courage etched on his face came from loving Aidia so much he’d close his eyes and walk...

Darling, my darling, don’t think that I don’t love you or that I didn’t love you, but it’s precisely because I love you that I couldn’t have become what I am today if you were...

To have my life accepted as just another ordinary life, to have it viewed as common and regular, was a singular moment.

I’m an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.

Julia really likes school and she is one of the top students. Mikolay doesn’t mind the weekend school because he is allowedto do lots of magic, which he really likes and is very good at.

It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you’d been put on this earth. A child, I imagined, was...

The literature of America should reflect the children of America.

How lucky country children are in these natural delights that lie ready to their hand! Every season and every plant offers changing joys. As they meander along the lane that leads to our school all...

Children and guns are a bad mix. It’s a bad mix because children don’t know the dangers of guns, so if they get them in their hands, unfortunately, things can happen fatally, just as it...

We all believe it’s important to have well-educated children. Those are the areas we want to focus on.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Children are God’s way of saving us. They give us a second chance at getting it right.

Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves

By Rachel Corrie, aged 10 — 1990I’m here for other children.I’m here because I care.I’m here because children everywhere are suffering and because forty thousand people die each day from hunger.I’m here because those people...

Ever two seconds, somewhere in the world, a child dies of starvation. That means every two seconds there is a story where the main character dies. That’s a lot of horrible stories. So if my...

Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well,

I know now it is children who accept life; grown people cover it up and pretend it is different with drinks.

Our greatest duty to our children is to love them first. Secondly, it is to teach them. Not to frighten, force, or intimidate our children into submission, but to effectively teach them so that they...

The move towards the extension of personhood to children is already underway, and is utterly, completely and totally unstoppable!

The constituency I’m concerned about is a very small one, … and that’s the constituency of my three children, should they decide to look back on my record ? and reflect on where I was...

In the morning, when he entered my room, I grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold...

and children are still the way you were …as a child, sad and happy in just the same way and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary...

God never abandons His children.

I’m Reginald Clark, I’m afraid of the darkSo please do not close this book on me.

worrisome. It’s romanticism, and it’s dangerous to have children and students on the street.

Outnumbered again. Come in and feed the face.

Parenting is a sacred responsibility with the sobering reality, of raising scholars or scars.

My late husband and I started our sons off as readers at a very young age. Today, they are voracious readers.

Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

I have two young children and I do feel optimistic that everything will be fine. I feel like I’m in the best health I’ve ever been.