Every new dayOur children’s joy is as fresh as roses,Even the birds chatter at dawn.

I figure when my husband comes home from work, if the kids are still alive, then I’ve done my job.

This is an unfortunate consequence of a system designed to penalize public schools and educators, rather than educate the children.

Children shouldn’t get punished for walking out. This will teach what they don’t learn in schools _ pride.

When people talk about how fast children forget, how fast they forgive, how sensitive they are, I let it go in one ear and out the other. Children can remember and forget and totally freeze...

Magrat liked to think she was good with children, and worried that she wasn’t. She didn’t like them very much, and worried about this too. Nanny Ogg seemed to be effortlessly good with children by...

For parents, the days are long but the years are short.

A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go. Falling in love can do that, you think. And so can a wild party. You marvel...

Many of our elected officials have virtually handed the keys to our schools over to corporate interests. Presidential commissions on education are commonly chaired by the executives of large companies.

Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.

Childhood’s work is learning, and it is in his play…that the child works at his job.

People wasted so much time seeking out the love of their lives in the shape of a partner, when the truth was that for most the real loves of their lives were their children –...

When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women? In some ways we’re as committed to the old...

Children—their untroubled, idyllic vision of the future is almost always shattered. Sooner or later they learn what all youth must—that life is the cruel fate that awaits them while they make plans for a tomorrow...

Perhaps someday, when you are a father, Prince, you will understand how empty is your heart if your child is a hollow toy that you can move where you will him to be

Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.

KIDS. They know a BRIBE when they see one. They want a PARENT, not a PAY-OFF. They don’t care if you’re Jack-King-Rodeo or Mister-You-Own-New-York. All they understand is time spent WITH YOU or WITHOUT YOU....

I’m so happy to be able to give kids the opportunity to learn about amazing world of dance and music that I’ve have been lucky enough to make such a big part of my own...

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or...

I have been looking on, this evening, at a merry company of children assembled round that pretty German toy, a Christmas Tree. The tree was planted in the middle of a great round table, and...

WE ARE the creators of the seeds that we have planted in the past — whether they were happiness, comfort, abundance, prosperity, family, children, ideas, or even thoughts — that are giving birth into our...

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?

Say what you will, dear sister, we do what we do for the promise of our youth. Yet it is always they who scar beneath the points of daggers.

It wasn’t a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.

Mdanganyifu hudanganya wanaopenda kudanganywa.

most ridiculous thing they ever could have done”? Do you really believe that your child is an idiot? Because she now does. Think about that. Because you said it, she now believes it. Bravo.

Children have no business expressing opinions on anything except “Do you have enough room in the toes?

Thinking over this thought, this whole thinking makes no sense.

I’ve never outgrown that feeling of mild pride, of acceptance, when children take your hand.

Even with the Boy Scouts admitting openly gay youths, its exclusion of LGBT adults teaches our children by example what the organization really thinks about them — and what they should think about themselves.

Morals do exist outside of organized religion, and the ‘morality’ taught by many of these archaic systems is often outdated, sexist, racist, and teaches intolerance and inequality. When a parent forces a child into a...

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...

Children are not entirely human. There is a lot of the animal left in them.about the girl who needed her foot amputated. p170

Between car payments, getting married, buying property, having children, dealing with deaths, most people walk a very tight rope with debt. They make the huge mistake of only making minimum payments. Once something goes wrong...

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

Hutch called into the semidarkness of The Shed. ‘Somebody’s coming, Heck!’Then he, with the rest, faded from sight with that uncanny quickness known only to creatures of the wild and young children who are, after...

It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.

Do not expect too much from your child and she will grow in your love… But if you push her too much, you will push her away. A child is not yours to own but...

Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms...

There were no fear of death in children’s eyes because they had seen hanging, stoning to death and chopping heads in playgrounds and parks.

single” about a single mom.

Beware of what you teach your children in the womb.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.