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.

There are good books which are only for adults.There are no good books which are only for children.

Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling beganto affect the netting under which the three children lay.It consisted of a multitude of dull scratches which produced a metallicsound, as if claws and...

Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even...

Fantasy isn’t about escape; it’s a survival mechanism. It’s a way to deal with things that are so much bigger than you are. So I think fantasy is special, something to be cherished and protected...

Pirate Captain Jim”Walk the plank,” says Pirate Jim”But Captain Jim, I cannot swim.””Then you must steer us through the gale.””But Captain Jim, I cannot sail.””Then down with the galley slaves you go.””But Captain Jim, I...

It isn’t the amount you spend today, it’s what you want to invest in for the future!

Your child’s needs are far more profound than his aberrant behavior. Remember, his behavior does not just spring forth uncaused. His behavior – the things he says and does – reflects his heart. If you...

Our children belong to God. We’re only given them on loan from heaven. Sometimes God calls them home sooner tan we expected.

A tried and true way to get your children interested in books and reading is to read to them when they are young.

Being nearly four years old, she was certainly a child: and children are human (if one allows the term “human” a wide sense): but she had not altogether ceased to be a baby: and babies...

Apart from my father, this house if filled with women. Women stop their lives; they’re programmed that way. A child comes into the world and suddenly the choices grow fewer. The women seem to understand...

Because the trend towards fewer children has been advancing faster than expected, we want the government and ruling parties to closely coordinate to thrash out comprehensive and strategic measures.

I think that whenever children be born that are not wanted they should be killed directly, before their souls come to ’em, and not allowed to grow big and walk about!

Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours,” muttered Locke, pointing the first two fingers of his left hand into the darkness. The Dagger of the Thirteenth, a thief’s gesture against...

You ChoseYou chose.You chose.You chose.You chose to give away your love.You chose to have a broken heart. You chose to give up. You chose to hang on.You chose to react.You chose to feel insecure.You chose...

He preferred smart questions to smart answers.

Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.

It all begins, I maintain, with that powerful and underutilized thing called love. God’s love for the individual is displayed by those people who reflect his love in their words and deeds. It ultimately gets...

Listen in close, Wall Street Conquistadors, you’re spreading like vapor up through people’s floors, you’re moving en masse under the cracks of our doors and grabbing our children to work in your stores, feeding the...

We must teach our children to get ‘EXCITED’ about life and the World around them,instead of ‘painting’ their minds with OUR potrayal of ‘how’ the World is…children learn from ’emulating’ their elders,not by being told…which...

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

Almost one in three children in Zimbabwe, 1,6-million, are now orphaned, having lost at least one parent, and this number is growing. HIV and Aids have dramatically increased children’s vulnerability in recent years.

Imagine, pretend, and play so you can become anyone you want to be. You don’t need to be afraid.

…It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Who are you to want to escape a thug’s bullet? That’s only a personal prejudice!”Men would shudder, he thought, if they saw a mother bird plucking the feathers from the wings of her young, then...

We decided to become developmental psychologists and study children because there aren’t any Martians. These brilliant beings with the little bodies and big heads are the closest we can get to a truly alien intelligence...

Every Sunday I nudge Sam in her direction, and he walks to where she is sitting and hugs her. She smells him behind the ears, where he most smells like sweet unwashed new potatoes. This...

Our fathers were demons,’ Catarina said. ‘Our mothers were heroes.

A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.

Then I probably fainted. The woman at the registration desk managed to put on a sympathetic expression afterward, as if she wanted to ask, “What are you going to do now?” I told her not...

Uma criança recém-nascida, julga-se infinita. Não sabe onde é que acaba, onde é que tem os seus limites. Depois, descobre os pés e fica fascinada. É um bebé que se depara com os seus limites:...

Could I speak to you for a moment, madam?’ said Nannie to Agnes.It was at moments of crisis like this that Mary chiefly envied her Aunt Agnes’s imperturbable disposition. Most mothers feel a hideous sinking...