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...

Kid’s books should be just as good as any other books. No. They should be held to a *higher* standard than other literature for the same reason that we take extra care with children’s food.

Remember when only a few people had mobile phones. Generally regarded as an object of derision, you would occasionally see business types clutching those ridiculous grey bricks to their faces and mutter to yourself ‘what...

I would never think of doing a movie for children if I did not have any, … A lot of things in the film I know about. I relate to all the sufferings much more...

[C]hildren were a much more difficult audience than adults because no on had yet had a chance to teach them that it was better to be polite than honest.

The mother is the child’s first relationship, his whole world, his existence. If there is love in the relationship between the child and the mother, the child learns to trust himself, to trust others and...

I am convinced that an immense number of people who have children should not have them, and do not particularly want them, except as “symbols” of family life. What they want are ideal children, not...

Can you be a little baby? The baby howls all day, yet its throat never gets hoarse – harmony at its height! The baby makes fists all day, yet its fingers never get cramped –...

Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors.

That said, pointing out inaccurate or unrealistic portrayals of women to younger grade school children-ages five to eight-does seem to be effective, when done judiciously:taking to little girls about body image and dieting, for example,...

Yes it’s true, you wake the child inside of you up because you’re a Mom!

An infant is a seed. Is it an oak seed or a cabbage seed? Who knows. All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.

I wish to resist the temptation to kiss…By super magic animals (Song: The Temptation)A visual poem about unfulfilled love…

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

Children who are not encouraged to do, to try, to explore, to master, and to risk failure, often feel helpless and inadequate. Over-controlled by anxious, fearful parents, these children often become anxious and fearful themselves....

When you treat a person right in the present they turn out better in the future.

It is a splendid thing to think that the woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles of time, through the mask of years, if you really love her, you...

I think we said everything that we wanted to say. We spoke about responsibility, the fate of children that survived; we spoke about the dead, those who didn’t live to grow old; we spoke about...

Family and friends become oppressors the moment they teach you that loyalty is more important than what is done to people outside your social circle. What they are really saying is this: Save yourself because...

You and I. Hand in hand. An endless story of love. A love that grew in me for 9 months and only grows bigger each day.You and I. Hand in hand. An endless journey. Countless...

What’s it like being drunk? Like being awake and asleep at the same time.

Of course the reason that all the children in our town like Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is because Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle likes children, she enjoys talking to them and best of all they do not irritate her.

Children are forced into prostitution, begging and soliciting, labor on plantations and in mines, markets, factories and domestic work.

The grief of children was unconditional, fueled by the implicit belief that it would last forever; for a child, grief was not grief unless it was eternal.

It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child’s curiosity and then...

Do whatever you must do to protect your children and wife.

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

Soeur Marie Emelie”Soeur Marie Emelieis little and very old:her eyes are onyx,and her cheeks vermilion,her apron wide and kindand cobalt blue.She comfortsgenerations and generationsof children,who are “new”at the convent school.When they are eight,they are already...

This means that five days a week, we are sending our school children into environments where there is an abundance of high-calorie, low-nutritional-quality, inexpensive food.

Remember, Little Ones, everything is not important all the time. Only living is important all the time. Not things. Not money. Not more things and more endless money. Spend well the quality of your time....

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated...

If history repeats itself, I am so getting a dinosaur!

When it comes to the education of our young, this privilege should only be given to those whose visions are solely in the uplifting benefit of the child. There is no room for the ego...

Children are natural practitioners of the Queer and the Questing, for childhood is nothing but a quest through a queer country. Of course, they often have a good deal of trouble with the Quiet.

Pais que não conhecem a si mesmo não são capazes de evitar a reprodução, em seus filhos, de suas disfunções

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Ikiwa huna pesa na una mke na watoto kwa mfano, mke wako (wanawake walio wengi) hatakuona wa maana kwa sababu ya ustawi wa maisha ya familia yake. Ikiwa una mwanamke asiyekuwa na busara au hekima...

After all I’ve done for you’ has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.

Loving my son, building my son, touching my son, playing with my son, being with my son… these aren’t tasks that only super dads can perform. These are tasks that every dad should perform. Always....

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

Women want respect but are let down by those of them who don’t respect themselves. Several men use this as an excuse to disrespect women. We are born with this as the norm and not...

You know, Dorothy, you can’t let people bring you down so easily or you’ll have your nose in the dirt for the rest of your life. From what I make of it, for every person...

Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.

The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it’s rarely a straight line.

The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.