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.

For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God has not abandoned this world.

Come away, O human child!To the waters and the wildWith a faery, hand in hand,For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

Her magic formula for dealing with children is ignoring all faults and accenting tiny virtues. She says, “Instead of telling Tommy day in and day out that he is the naughtiest boy in the United...

That’s the difference between you and Greta. She has better things to do. She gets involved in clubs, activities. She has friends. But you? You slump around in that room of yours–

Every year I collect a select amount of material possessions (baseball cards, coins, famous paraphernalia) to pass on to my children. In two or more generations they should have a small fortune of ‘ancient’ famous...

And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them

Well, Mr Markham, you that maintain that a boy should not be shielded from evil, but sent out to battle against it, alone and unassisted – not taught to avoid the snares of life, but...

First you be a hero and then raise your child to be a hero.

Children and teens are surrounded by unhealthy options.

Children see God every day; they just don’t call it that. It’s the summer sky painted with cumulus clouds by day and sequined with a million stars by night. It’s the sweet whispers of sweet...

On the stairs he was crying so much he hardly saw where he was going – not a mad boo-hoo but wailing sheets of tears, shaken into funny groans by the bump of each step...

Wisdom is justified by all her children.Luke 7:35

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers...

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

There was a pleasant party of barge people round the fire. You might not have thought it pleasant, but they did; for they were all friends or acquaintances, and they liked the same sort of...

I’d far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.

The Revolution is like Saturn – it eats its own children

Motherhood:The most exhausting, emotional, rewardingand life-enhancing journey a woman can take.

A child’s imaginary playmate just might actually be there.

A boy, Ranga, is the light in his father’s eye and the love in his mother’s heart.

Someone once told me that children are like kites. You struggle just to get them in the air; they crash; you add a longer tail. Then they get caught in a tree; you climb up...

Lives are lost and, and the blood of these children is on someone’s head.

The way I wrestle five-year-olds makes me think if I were ever attacked by a pack of midgets, I’d be OK.

Invest your money and time acquiring knowledge for yourself… and the good news is that as you do so, you keep your children and grandchildren and unborn generations enlightened by what you have already learnt!

Marriages is no kid’s play. Those parents just hope to see their children make the right choices.

Torture when inflicted on childrenbecomes indefensible. Even among those who believe that torture is a defensiblepractice to extract information, the case for inflicting pain and abuse upon childrenproves impossible to support.

Let’s teach that loving isn’t always loving. Like when you loved the hamster so much that it died. Some adults do that too. Too much, the wrong way. These are ‘Stay away’ zones on your...

Look at children. Of course they may quarrel, but generally speaking they do not harbor ill feelings as much or as long as adults do. Most adults have the advantage of education over children, but...