In order for them to be the best they can be, my children need me to be the best version of me I can be. That meanstaking charge of our lives, being strong even if...

How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living children haunted your heart; they could never know, and would hate it if they did, how their growing...

Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is...

… Low expectations.

You should listen to even the smallest voice, someday it could be the one that makes a difference.

The only bright spot in the entire evening was the presence of Kevin “Tubby” Matchwell, the eleven-year-old porker who tackled the role of Santa with a beguiling authenticity. The false beard tended to muffle his...

Good parents use the mistakes they did in the past when they were young to advice the children God gave to them to prevent them from repeating those mistakes again. However, bad parents always want...

One winter morning Peter woke up and looked out the window. Snow had fallen during the night. It covered everything as far as he could see.

Babies are soft. Anyone looking at them can see the tender, fragile skin and know it for the rose-leaf softness that invites a finger’s touch. But when you live with them and love them, you...

I sympathize with a mother who has three mouths to feed—especially if two of those mouths are on her face. With a woman like that I’d listen twice as hard for doublespeak. I’m pretty accustomed...

The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.

Her mindset will raise your children not her body or good looks

It was an accident, although Ive been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child in school, music, athletics. To me, acting is the most logical way for peoples...

I’ve got to have kids of my own. If not, who’s going to ascend to my throne?

[E]verywhere I’m looking at kids, adults mostly don’t seem to like them, not even the parents do. They call the kids gorgeous and so cute, they make the kids do the thing all over again...

It’s a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that means bringing things up with them: Asking, telling, sounding them out,...

When it comes to technology, you’re in a position of your children having to teach you. How often do kids have any power or authority? How often do parents come to them and listen to...

It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

What would it profit us to possess and perform everything else and be like pure saints, if we meanwhile neglected our chief purpose in life, namely, the care of the young?

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain

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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

At that moment Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn’t know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with, and he reached out in order to meet her for...

I’m only keeping in touch with you for the sake of the children. Way to look after our son, by the way. I let you have him for the weekend and before I know it...

It’s only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.

I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.

No, Roger had not seen the funny side. But there had been a moment when, after looking at his watch, he had thought: I can remember when Christmas morning would start at about half past...

Children will often rise or fall accordingto the expectations of loved ones in their lives.

The real loser in the election tonight was not Jim Leininger but the parents of inner-city children trapped in failing schools who will now have more legislators aligned with teachers unions instead of children who...

Children may not understand all that’s happening below the surface of a story. It doesn’t matter. Because even though they may not be able to define or verbalize it, they sense there’s something more than...

My life has been shaped by the decision two people made over 24 years ago. They decided to adopt a child. They got me, and I got a chance at the kind of life all...

The people of jewel,” said Olga Ciavolga,”treat their children like delicate flowers. They think they will not survive without constant protection. But there are parts of the world where young boys and girls spend weeks...

Perhaps I should admit on the title page that this book is “By L. Frank Baum and his correspondents,” for I have used many suggestions conveyed to me in letters from children. Once on a...

Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew.””He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children to adulthood. I understand your mother has six.””Right.””And you’re the oldest.””Yes.””That’s too bad. Parents...

The notion of children makes me ill. The thought of having one… when you see those guys in the supermarket, wheeling the trolley around while their brats whine and wheedle and some blundering sow questions...

Children get food shelter pocket money longholidays and love, all of it apparently free gratis, and most of the little fools think it’s a sort of compensation for having been born. ‘There are no strings...

I believe there was a terribly misguided effort to protect children from what some prosecutors somewhere in this country might consider offensive or indecent online material, … The Communications Decency Act tramples on the free...

Youth was the time for happiness, its only season; young people, leading a lazy, carefree life, partially occupied by scarcely absorbing studies, were able to devote themselves unlimitedly to the liberated exultation of their bodies....

I have four children which is not bad considering I’m not a Catholic.

You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.

Every eviction is just heart breaking, and they almost always have to do with — always have — children involved.

Kids are trusting and wise and I cannot think of a less useful combination to be born with. The wisdom lets children know who they are. And then the trust lets everyone else take that...

Our children are regularly asked very detailed questions about their personal lives and parents are seldom notified. Too often these surveys are worded in ways that nearly encourage … unhealthy behaviors.

There are not seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.

All these candidates talk about children,