Four years after my father’s death, when the subject of parents came up in conversation i would relate the information in a flat, matter-of-fact tone eager to detect in my listener the flinch of grief...

My father believes with his entire soul that the meek shall inherit the earth. My children will inherit the earth but they will not be meek.

I’m not holding myself out as a model, but I do believe that we in America can ask more of children than we typically do, and they will not only respond to the challenge, but...

Children. For all of the times that you miss out on things you’d like to do because of them, there are an equal number of excuses they offer to get out of things you’d like...

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated...

If history repeats itself, I am so getting a dinosaur!

When it comes to the education of our young, this privilege should only be given to those whose visions are solely in the uplifting benefit of the child. There is no room for the ego...

Children are natural practitioners of the Queer and the Questing, for childhood is nothing but a quest through a queer country. Of course, they often have a good deal of trouble with the Quiet.

Pais que não conhecem a si mesmo não são capazes de evitar a reprodução, em seus filhos, de suas disfunções

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Ikiwa huna pesa na una mke na watoto kwa mfano, mke wako (wanawake walio wengi) hatakuona wa maana kwa sababu ya ustawi wa maisha ya familia yake. Ikiwa una mwanamke asiyekuwa na busara au hekima...

After all I’ve done for you’ has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.

Loving my son, building my son, touching my son, playing with my son, being with my son… these aren’t tasks that only super dads can perform. These are tasks that every dad should perform. Always....

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

Women want respect but are let down by those of them who don’t respect themselves. Several men use this as an excuse to disrespect women. We are born with this as the norm and not...

You know, Dorothy, you can’t let people bring you down so easily or you’ll have your nose in the dirt for the rest of your life. From what I make of it, for every person...

Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.

The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it’s rarely a straight line.

The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.

Children in the developing world may respond differently.

I think children want to believe that they can be heroes too.

There were still few rules at Down House, and Charles was not very good at enforcing the ones he and Emma did make. This was well known among his children. In 1855, when Lenny was...

Kids are a pain in the ass.

It was interesting. Isabelle thought, the children that chose you. Some come through your body; others came in cars in the middle of the night.

I have hunger.

This book is not about “homeschooling” at all. School is an artificial institution contrived by man. This book is about educating a child in the heart of the family given to that child by his...

Model the qualities that you want your children to show to each other.

It’s important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It’s not only life of babies, but it’s life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.

A child’s reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, the very...

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

One more time” in the face of failure. Hope is what gives life to dreams, making the fairy tale the reality.

The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.

It was clear to me that it wouldn’t matter what I did – they would never truly appreciate me or learn what I had to offer. They were far beyond fickle – they were insensible,...

Would my son love me, when he was old enough to know what love meant?p 181

Creativity becomes more visible when adults try to be more attentive to the cognitive processes of children than to the results they achieve in various fields of doing and understanding.

That’s when I remember if you have a choice, always ask friends to leave in a very nice voice.

Strange combination, isn’t it–gratitude and resentment? But this is the way I think. Actually, I think everybody thinks that way. Even the children of the humans who died long ago, I think they lived their...

The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

Life – with or without softener- is hard

The accountant lingers at his children’s doorway a moment more, listening to the easy rhythm of their breathing, and something cold moves through him, like the passage of a ghost – but he know that’s...

Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be...

The people who run the circus kidnapped us from our parents. Since we got here, we have all been working in the circus. We can’t see any of our mummies or kiss them OR cuddle...

I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to...

Fourteen people died on the spot and four people, including two children, have been injured.

What feeling is so nice as a child’s hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.

Come, my child,” I said, trying to lead her away. “Wish good-bye to the poor hare, and come and look for blackberries.””Good-bye, poor hare!” Sylvie obediently repeated, looking over her shoulder at it as we...

They’d listen silenty, with grave faces: but once they’d turn to each other they’d smile cruelly. He couldn’t have it both ways. He’d put himself outside and outside they’d make him stay. Neither brutality nor...

I’m going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don’t look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they’re big and thoughtless and they always know what they’re doing. Inside, they look just like they always...

For him the tragedy of Homo sapiens is that the least fit to survive breed the most.

It was very laborious and very dangerous to make soap. Children weren’t even allowed to be in the area because fumes from the lye could burn their throats.