I have heard that, with some persons, temperance – that is, moderation – is almost impossible; and if abstinence be an evil (which some have doubted), no one will deny that excess is a greater....

With some parents’ work schedules, some children might be here at the school for 11 hours.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of...

My aim is to sort the jumble of information we throw at these children and present it in such a way that they will have a greater chance of achieving independence and fulfilment.

If shadows were caused by the interplay between light and Life, a child’s was still forming. An adult’s was inextricably bound to his body, but a child had a tenuous relationship to his own permanence,...

She said that she had a nice big house, had a big back yard and other children to watch. I said that sounds really good, because Melissa loves to play outside.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

It’s not free – Somebody had to pay for it!

Many of the children didn’t know their score, and if they did know the numbers they didn’t know what scoring a level one, two or three meant in their school career.

I remember the shift that occurred after Abby was born – there’d been the great big before, where dying grandparents and natural disasters on the news were sad but mostly distant concerns. But then I...

It’s the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.

For a time Emerson politely endeavored to conceal his boredom – like most men, he is profoundly disinterested in all children except his own – …

They are funny little representatives of simplicity, of awareness. No one is more aware of themselves as these children are. They have nothing, have no one but us, have seemingly no reason to be hopeful…yet...

Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.

Let children alone… the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone, not teasing them with perpetual commands and directions – a running fire of...

No parent would refuse that, Rachel.

Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.

I have long held that there are two fundamental views of children: That they are pets who can talk, or that they are small people who do not yet know very much. The wrong one...

Ok, I see. When they say Charles Wovenu is passing by, everyone wants to see Charles Wovenu. But when they say to a child that “Bibi” is passing by, every child is hiding for “Bibi”....

Child give me your hand so that I may walk in the light of your faith in me.

When you hold a child to your breast to nurse, the curve of the little head echoes exactly the curve of the breast it suckles, as though this new person truly mirrors the flesh from...

I’ve got much in my life that’s so good: my wife, my children, my friends. I don’t need anything filled up by success or a band, … If I’m going to play with people, I’m...

…but oh, it would just break your heart to see some of them waiting for their visitors. They get their hair all done up on Saturday, and on Sunday morning they get themselves all dressed...

There’s nothing more toxic or deadly than a human child. A single touch could kill you.

Cheer up and give them out there a good reason to be happy.

Save money on kids by volume. Deal in bulk and have dozens of kids.

Children played at those stories; they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them.

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

They were very active in the community, as far as taking children in. This was not the first or one of the first children that they had taken into their home.

The only duty you owe is to yourself and to your family.The duty you owe to yourself is to do the best you can, and the duty you owe to your family is to endeavor...

snips and snails and puppydog tails.

To some, having children may seem as conducive to travelling as having your feet set in concrete.

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

Writing a book is like raising a child, the only difference is you don’t have the fucking part in writing a book.

schools assume that children are not interested in learning and are not much good at it, that they will not learn unless made to, that they cannot learn unless shown how, and that the way...

Parent should never forget the great excitement they felt for the birth of a new born into the world.

The world doesn’t owe you anything because you’re in it, but you owe yourself the world because it is in you.

Children live in a world of dreams and imagination, a world of aliveness… There is a voice of wonder and amazement inside all of us; but we grow to realize we can no longer hear...

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am...

Occasionally, a dog will be presented as some training method for having a baby. “My girlfriend and I got a dog. We are going to see if we can handle that before we have kids.”...

Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.

Our children cannot be assumed to follow in our footsteps, assuage our losses, or compensate for our inadequacies.

Grown-ups desperately need to feel safe, and then they project onto the kids. But what none of us seem to realize is how smart kids are. They don’t like what we write for them, what...

The Unexpected GiftTorn asunder from her slumberin the hour of half past threeThe child knew the tyrannical regimeand followed instinctively.-(slice from Enigmatic Evolution)

Shouldn’t we also ask ourselves what the consequences are of scrambling to provide the “most” of everything to our children in a world of fast dwindling resources?

Death has nothing to do with going away.The sun sets.The moon sets.But they are not gone.~Rumi

Never tell a child that something it’s too hard

Every book is a children’s book if the kid can read!

Exactly what are you wanting to teach your children? -How to love and care for themselves, or how to neglect and abandon themselves? Self-sarifice is NOT setting a good example.

Leaves lift trees.