You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them

They all learned how to swim.

Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them until the blood flows.

No!”The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved goodbye.

It was easier for girls. They could say This hurts, or I don’t like how this feels, and have the complaint be socially acceptable. Boys, though, didn’t speak that language. They didn’t learn it as...

When Aziza first spotted Mariam in the morning, her eyes always sprang open, and she began mewling and squirming in her mother’s grip. She thrust her arms toward Mariam, demanding to be held, her tiny...

Add children to the list of things I hate.

I can think of another quickie education for a child, which, in its way, is almost as salutary: Meeting a human being who is tremendously respected by the adult world, and realizing that that person...

Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.

We gotta start teaching our daughters to be somebodies instead of somebody’s.

Webb owns a good house, and his children can read and write.

Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.

Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along–the same person that I am today. I never felt that I spoke childishly. I never felt...

Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.

As common as unplanned sex. As uncommon as a planned child.

flouts (the First Amendment) for the sake of political posturing and in the name of protecting our children.

My parents won’t let me have a motorcycle, but they give me all the guns I want. I asked them for a motorcycle last Christmas and they told me I’d only kill myself. They got...

We have to HIDE from each other because we think that we are the only ones BROKEN. We think we’re the only ones whose original selves we ground up and smashed under the jack-booted heel...

She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. ‘Time’ for her isn’t something to fight against....

The root of impatience in discipline is really the same as that of overindulgence. In both instances, parents want to make up for lost time, to speed up a process that takes time.

There it is.”And he watched with now-gentle sorrow and now-quick delight, and at last quiet acceptance as all the bits and pieces of his house mixed, stirred, settled, poised, and ran steadily again.”The Happiness Machine,”...

All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that.

In God’s eyes all children are beautiful but here on earth we have higher standards.

As a parent, you have authority because God calls you to be an authority in your child’s life. You have the authority to act on behalf of God. As a father or mother, you do...

Así es. ,Sabes?, Bianca di Angelo no es la única que tiene un hermano irritante. Ya va siendo hora de que conozcas a mi muy irresponsable gemelo. Apolo. – Artemisa.

If the day ever comes that it (Deep Space Nine) isn’t safe for kids to run around this station we all need to pack up and go home.

Louis was often struck by Gage’s speech, not because it was cute, but because he thought that small children all sounded like immigrants learning a foreign language in some helter-skelter but fairly amiable way. He...

People are dying from house collapses, snake bites, and two children were washed away by the swirling water of the river.

The best gift you can give to your kids is a happy marriage.

To celebrate the birth of new life, is to appreciate the miraculous work of the Creator.

To the woman in the restaurant today, the doll in her arms was the real child who still lived in her memories.

I, uh, I was teasing.

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder, and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.

They play in the Meadow. The dancing girl with the dark hair and blue eyes. The boy with blond curls and gray eyes, struggling to keep up with her on his chubby toddler legs. It...

In the next couple of years children of the baby boomers will be looking for rentals.

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.

The secret of happiness lies in the lifestyle of a child who lives in present; past and future are only the grammar thing for him.

Most parents want to know what they can do to make their children do as they’re told,

Education of children, especially girls, is the cornerstone to national progress,

Children learn eagerly and well when they have need of the knowledge.

I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the color of gold....

Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child I had been coddled a good deal (also scolded). I was awkward, precocious,...

They were amazing, fierce, beautiful children.

Kids are important. The most important thing.

The fact is that Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable-even legally actionable-to Westerners. Chinese mothers can say to their daughters, “Hey fatty-lose some weight.” By contrast, Western parents have to tiptoe around...

We don’t teach our children that healthy relationships involve drunken, naked parties in a hot tub with strangers – but that’s what they see when they turn on `The Real World,’ … When they’re fed...

Eventually kids become grown-ups too, and from there, the world is whatever they choose to make of it.

The importance of the findings is that the number of uninsured children is a reasonable number that we are in a position to fully cover.

Children must be taught that they are worth being heard, being saved and being loved.