In general, this indicates an endemic problem. There’s a discounting of children. Robert did exactly what he was taught to do. And if we’re concerned in the United States about the welfare of children, as...

The grace of birth is a divine.

Parents are programmed to want the best for their kids, regardless of what they get in return. That’s what love is supposed to be like, right? But in fact, if you think about it, that’s...

To all you parents out there, don’t make your little girls, or little boys, so thirsty for love that they will want to drink water that will poison them.

I truly believe that the children who are diagnosed with cancer are some of the wisest, sweetest, strongest, and most loving children. They have gained a bigger perspective of the world in such a short...

You can overcome whatever is going on around you if you believe in the light that lives within you.

The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.

Adults, in their dealing with children, are insane,” he [Ed Ricketts] said. “And children know it too. Adults lay down rules they would not think of following, speak truths they do not believe. And yet...

There is no better satisfaction than to see your children make your dreams theirs, and achieve them on their terms.

Mikolay and Julia live in the same neighborhood and go tothe same school every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Adoption is the most intentional process on Earth.

When i was a child, i liked tasting any candy i happened to see, but as i grew older, i realized those are a great meal to the worms in my innards. Will you shun...

Every child comes into this world as a gift to humanity. It is up to us, as adults, to see that they are properly taken care of and given all the love and attention they...

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make...

Middle-income children are being left behind. Children in poverty have access to Head Start. Upper-income parents buy whatever is best for their child — usually a preschool of very high quality. It’s the middle class...

He switched off the light, came back and sat in the chair. In the darkness, Liesel kept her eyes open. She was watching the words.

All the games were selected for them by supervisors and had to have some useful, educational purpose. The children learned these new games but unlearned something else in the process: they forgot to be happy,...

Now I understand why women want to have children – it’s simply the urge to create happiness for yourself, somehow to fill the oppressive, unbearable emptiness in your soul.

if you want to understand your child better then see through the child’s eye.

I had uncovered a widely held but overlooked attachment: our attachment to the view that every problem must have a solution. We delude ourselves that we can think our way out of a problem or...

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,

Recognizing that God has called you to function as his agent defines your task as a parent. Our culture has reduced parenting to providing care. Parents often see the task in these narrow terms. The...

God sends little children to speak and act for him. In their simplicity and naivety they say and do things that we adults never would, but which can reveal deep truths about the way the...

Non lasciare che qualcuno cerchi di convincerti che i bambini non si portino dietro i loro rancori nella vita da adulti.

The creative adult is the child who survived after the world tried killing them, making them grown up. The creative adult is the child who survived the blandness of schooling, the unhelpful words of bad...

We made that decision based on the educational needs of the children. We did not want to sacrifice four days of those kids’ academic lives.

Dress well because you can; not because its a choice imposed you.

It’s quite sad that so many children go through life unsure whether their parents love them or not.

So if I speak to you, Tutor Olana, will you get the lashes?

Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and skepticism of adulthood. Embrace the moment before it escapes from...

Glimmer, I hear someone call her – ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous …

No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine. […]To drive children into labour is to slaughter artists, to scour deathly all wonder, the flickering dart of imagination eager as...

Shall I confess it, Mr. Hartright? I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature’s only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.

There’s no reason I should sit around and wait for something like this to happen to my children, … I want to help other families bring their children home.

Sometimes we have to put our foot down, … but before we deliberately make children unhappy in order to get them to get into the car, or to do their homework or whatever, we need...

Meeting the Millennium Development Goals depends on reaching vulnerable children throughout the developing world.

The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.

This water was indeed a different thing from ordinary nourishment. Its sweetness was born of the walk under the stars, the song of the pulley, the effort of my arms. It was good for the...

The little prince went away, to look again at the roses.”You are not at all like my rose,” he said. “As yet, you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no...

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...