If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.

You have only one chance to raise your child.

When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he’s doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.

And as I watched him, I knew that in every dark night there was, somewhere, a small light burning that could never be quenched.

Your children will be like olive shootsaround your table.” -Psalm 128:3Children are likened to olive plants. Olive plants, if not pruned and controlled, become a wild nuisance. On the other hand, small olive plants that...

There is no vicious inhumanity than keeping children hungry.

We can best help children learn, not by deciding what we think they should learn and thinking of ingenious ways to teach it to them, but by making the world, as far as we can,...

Every child born into the world has a divine mission to fulfill.As the child grows into adulthood, he or she must act to fulfill the divine mission.

When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy. Matthew 2:10

If we don’t stand up for children, then we don’t stand for much.

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

Thoughts are such fleet magic things. Betsy’s thoughts swept a wide arc while Uncle Keith read her poem aloud. She thought of Julia learning to sing with Mrs. Poppy. She thought of Tib learning to...

I believe, as followers of Christ, we are commanded to reach out to the least of these in the name of Jesus and show them they matter a great deal to God, who sacrificed His...

Independance grows out of a child’s faith that her source of security will always be there when she needs it.

Eis Izras” three times. The door opened at once, unfortunately making lots of noise and waking the humans up. Mikolay knew a few powerful hexes and he was able to create small flying dragons. He...

He brought back some photos of a Navajo rodeo. There were some rather marvelous shots of children and we discussed doing a story about cowboy kids. Before I committed to this, I wanted to make...

In a child’s eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power...

Children and fools always speak the truth.

Life, Rose well knew, could throw some hard punches at you, but nothing hurt as much as losing a child, or seeing one of your children hurt and suffering. Becoming a parent changed you forever,...

All creatures have a sense of territory – except children.

Kids didn’t have huge backpacks when I was their age. We didn’t have backpacks at all. Now it seemed all the kids had them. You saw little second-graders bent over like sherpas, dragging themselves through...

If parents don’t want to hear the truth, children learn not to speak it.

a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.

All children are curious and I wonder by what process this trait becomes developed in some and suppressed in others. I suspect again that schools and colleges help in the suppression insofar as they meet...

When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children

This is not a contest with your child. The winner is not the one with more points. The winner is the one whose child still loves them when they graduate from high school.

Parents are starting to understand that this could be one of the tools for (their children) to get an education. Every kid knows that that’s an opportunity for them to get off the island and...

A lot has changed for me. My life has improved. It’s not only children, but the relationship with my wife is the best thing that ever happened to me.

You cannot sacrifice the world for your children.

The most precious gift that you can give to the child is unconditional love and acceptance, which allows the child to discover his own inner being, his authentic self, his freedom to be himself.

And the end of this paradox is that only when the child is thus free can he have the proper attachment to his parents; only when we allow his independence can he then freely offer...

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.

The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.

What if the actual sin was that despite the fact of knowing how cruel and unfair this world is; we still bring children to life?

Children’s SongWe live in our own world,A world that is too smallFor you to stoop and enterEven on hands and knees,The adult subterfuge.And though you probe and pryWith analytic eye,And eavesdrop all our talkWith an...

In the midst of the vagaries of life, they provide us a trip to the land of goodness and fairies, of imaginations and possibilities.A childhood that wasn’t spent watching cartoons or reading comic strips, no...

We think it makes constitutional sense and common sense to protect our children from exposure to senseless, graphic violence that has no purpose other than to appeal to baser instincts.

Sometimes I wait at the bottom of those dark stairs, I sit at the bottom of the stairs, I wait beyond the bottom of the stairs and listen to the sounds my wife and children...

I use Fiction to face Reality And write sweet Stories to avoid the bitter ones.

If the bible be true, God commanded his chosen people to destroy men simply for the crime of defending their native land. They were not allowed to spare trembling and white-haired age, nor dimpled babes...

You will never know the moon or stars, unless you breathe in their solar system and inspect it from many diverse vantage points as possible.

For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God has not abandoned this world.

Come away, O human child!To the waters and the wildWith a faery, hand in hand,For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

Her magic formula for dealing with children is ignoring all faults and accenting tiny virtues. She says, “Instead of telling Tommy day in and day out that he is the naughtiest boy in the United...

That’s the difference between you and Greta. She has better things to do. She gets involved in clubs, activities. She has friends. But you? You slump around in that room of yours–