I had a dream about you. We were shoveling dollar bills and used diapers and laughing like children. I was dancing like I had a fog machine in my pants, and I did, which is...

I had a dream about you. A stadium full of children in glowing white robes were singing your name like little angels, and I wondered who you were to be deserving of such praise. Then...

A bad thing happened to you kids, Dad said. But it could have been worse.So much worse, Mom said.But because of you kids, Dad said, it wasn’t.You did so good, Mom said.Did beautiful, Dad said.

Out of all the fathers in the world, I am the most like Mother Theresa. Also, I am childless.

No—it’s less money, yes, but it’s also less space than we need.” Whatever we do when we do it, we must remember that we do it for the children.

Amid the joy of raising children will be some of the hardest work you’ll ever do.

The best antidote to worry is action. If there is an action that will lessen the likelihood of a dreaded outcome occurring, and if that action doesn’t cost too much in terms of effort or...

In the last 15 years, 70 to 77 percent of all parents with children under 13 find this ratings system very useful to fairly useful … in helping parents make their own decisions.

What exactly was the difference? he wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.

Four girls about Mira’s age were standing out on the deck on the upper level of the ferry. They were wearing hoodies, sweatpants and jeans. One of the girls was staring at the screen on...

Why is it that children, taught the names of the months and the fact that there are twelve of them, don’t ask why the ninth is called the seventh (September), the tenth called the eight...

In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often overlooked. Yet a child’s need for quietness is the same today as it...

No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics.

Young children and old ladies have inspired me more than poets and philosophers.

People don’t want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need to know. If you’re a teacher you’re in a constant battle with mildly...

Peaceful with six children Darya Alexandrova could not be…Rare indeed were the brief periods of peace…hard though it was for the mother to bear the dread of illness, the illnesses themselves, and the grief of...

OUr past doesn’t define us. It prepares us.

One of the chief paradoxes of our culture [is] that the welfare of its children, its _future_, is placed almost exclusively in the hands of people of low status, a class it holds in contempt.

The child’s existence turned a plain world to riches. Her life raised up like this, the child giving point and purpose to each day, the care of him transforming her, widening and deepening her.

I believe there is a hero in each of us. The best books are the ones that remind us of who we already are and empower us to embrace our own story.

But our forest is sacred & magical with many unusual creatures & plants.We don’t want people to destroy everything!

Sometimes parents don’t find what they’re looking for it their child, so they plant seeds for what they’d like to grow there instead. I’ve witnessed this with the former hockey player who takes his son...

Individuality, family, and community are, by definition, expressions of singular organization, never of “one-right-way” thinking on the grand scale. Children and families need some relief from government surveillance and intimidation if original expressions belonging to...

Children’s liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

For Parents: Never blame or scold a child for their first mistake after all family is the first school from where a child learns.

You won’t get love from a child if you don’t give love.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

I will teach my daughter to color outside the lines, to make mistakes, to take risks, and not be afraid to fail. I will teach her that even when the world tries to knock her...

At a certain point in her life, she realises it is not so much that she wants to have a child as that she does not want not to have a child, or not to...

There would be times in the years to come when he ( Murphy ) would accompany me back and forth between the two worlds I’d come to know. Other times, Yipes would venture out over...

I mean, what do people talk about when they’re married?” “Their kids, I guess.” “Maybe that’s all they have in common.

To know what should be going on in a household: spend a few minutes with the wife, or, the husband. To know what’s really going on: spend a few minutes with their kid(s).

Anthropologists say that in every culture in history, children have played the game hide and seek.

Miller Place argues they do fine. Maybe they do since many of their children go to pre-school. But not all kids in Miller Place went to pre-school. We want to close the education gap ?...

Children are prophets of nature.

This program is critical to the elderly, disabled and children of this state,

I love you. I love you both so much.””To the moon and back?” Alice asked.”Oh my God,” Georgie said, “so much farther.

With a tale, for sooth, he comet unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

I began to see that creating a healthy family, in which members develop the ability for mutual respect and caring, is a prerequisite for a more peaceful world. For, it is the family that creates...

Love your children, and most especially the woman who gave birth to them.

It’s not simply the learning, … It’s the stability. Stability is essential in the lives of children.

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children

There is no better time than now to rededicate yourself to the principles taught by Jesus, and to teach your children about Him too!

I will always take your part, Bee. Right or wrong. That is why you must always take care to be right, lest you make your father a fool.

We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves

Look at you, standing there in your iron- gray dress, feeling piousand self- righteous while you starve small children!

Research shows, … that while mothers tend to soothe their children and shield them from too much stimulation, the average father is inclined to arouse the emotions and stimulate a boy, playing with him zestfully...

All problems, though appearing outside of you, must be resolved within YOU.