Not to do as the child wishes would be wrong because he is born on a path, and it would be evil, a crime against nature to make him deny his spirit.

Let’s appreciate and welcome the arrival of a new prophet The one who can be Reasonable and rational Realistic and democratThe one who respects the rights of women and childrenAnd does not make everyone slave...

For many years I have been asking myself why intelligent children act unintelligently at school. The simple answer is, “Because they’re scared.” I used to suspect that children’s defeatism had something to do with their...

Your children need to know they are loved and safe. Everything else is adult business.

Had I catalogued the downsides of parenthood, “son might turn out to be a killer” would never have turned up on the list. Rather, it might have looked something like this:1. Hassle.2. Less time just...

There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old “accountable” for her performance on a high-stakes standardized exam but does not hold the high officials of our...

Leah: I want those gubs Mommy.Kate: They’re not ‘gubs’ they’re ‘gloves’Aaden and Leah try and say glovesLeah: Gloves!Kate: Good job!Aaden: Gubs!Kate: No

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world…

People who have babies tell me I will know a love that is beyond anything I can imagine, and a joy that is indescribable. Love and joy? That sounds horrifying. I have no way of...

I think it’s hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they’re nineteen years old.

Asking a parent not to be a parent is like asking the sun not to be hot or snow not to be cold.

You and I both know that love is for children,” he said. ”We’re adults. Compatibility is for adults.””Compatibility is for my Bluetooth and my car,” Teresa replied. ”Only they get along just fine, and my...

To see the world, get more education and have children, not necessarily in that order.

It offers the clinic the opportunity to serve more children.

Many of us live here, we work here, we own houses here and we have children here. It only makes sense that we be given the chance to live here legally.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone.

80There is no greater influence in the lives of your children than the words you speak over them. The blessing of the father is incredibly potent and powerful. Your words give your children potential. As...

But thoughtless ingratitude is the armour of the young; without it, how would they ever get through life? The old wish the young well, but they wish them ill also: they would like to eat...

…little children adore me – I’m a Troll Tamer and they know it!…

You can’t make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn’t made them wish they had.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

These children didn’t choke, these children had their intestines pulled together by these super strong magnets.

As a child, she’d always had what she imagined were fascinating thoughts, but didn’t ever say them. Once, as a little girl, at recess, she thought that if she ran very fast at a pole...

If you’re using most of your energy to do stuff for your kids, then you’ll have that much less energy to just be there for them.

CAUSE AND EFFECTYou can give a man who has never given you a good word,Volumes of knowledge.And you can give a man who has never given you a gift,A thousand gifts.You can give that same...

He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? People were more often–he searched for a...

A child comes from God, a child is a gift from God, but a child is not our possession. Give the child unconditional love and freedom. Respect the child, the child has its own soul....

Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You’ll miss them forever.

So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian...

One thing’s sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children

His father was an ass and he is an ass. I imagine sooner than I should like I shall be playing uncle to a litter of asses.

Courage was no that hard to come by for children. No matter the hardships they faced, given a little love and encouragement, their spirits rebounded and thrived. Adults were different. Their habits and experiences made...

I heard many parents complain that their children have lost interest in study after they were intoxicated by such websites.

The two children of the prime minister must clarify their involvement to the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Stock Exchange of Thailand since the public has raised questions.

So often, children are punished for being human. Children are not allowed to have grumpy moods, bad days, disrespectful tones, or bad attitudes, yet we adults have them all the time! We think if we...

The world has a very serious problem, my friend’ Shiva went on. ‘Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the global rich — like me — live in post-scarcity society, while a billion...

Embrace, nurture, love and celebrate the child in self and others; because being child is being a future.

Everybody in the world knows the town of Gettysburg. A lot of children know about Abraham Lincoln. If they know about Lincoln, they know about the Gettysburg Address. Next to people’s own hometown, Gettysburg is...

Children in the abstract, had never appealed to me. They seemed to be loud creatures, often dripping some form of goo.

The developing countries have experienced a plenty of sufferings. People and children in these countries are in an urgent need of education, development and peace,

A child who is born is something to seek out, something to search for, a star, a northern light, a column of energy in the universe. And a child who dies-that’s an abomination.

But when adults speak up for the vulnerable and the weak, working and demanding that safety and respect prevail, God’s little lambs are protected and nourished. They know they are not abandoned; they are loved....

She announced her age right away, for children consider their ages every bit as important as their names.

Bachelorhood: all the fun of married life and more prosperity, leaving lots of descendants to boast of their father’s memory to their fellow inmates.

Don’t forget to be kind, you will make someone’s day!

It is important to protect children from being recruited and used in armed conflict.

She has a passion for teaching and for children, a creative mind and limitless energy. When you put that together, you have something special.

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed…