Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.

Children are notoriously curious about everything, everything except… the things people want them to know. It then remains for us to refrain from forcing any kind of knowledge upon them, and they will be curious...

He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.

In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away...

It is impossible to estimate full influence of the reading of the Word in a home day after day and year after year. It filters into the hearts of the young. It is absorbed into...

He liked to feel the soft little hand clasping his own fingers, so big and coarse in comparison, and happily so strong. For in the child’s weakness he felt an infinite pathos; a being so...

We are making a bold run at engaging the tens of millions of young children in India around important educational messages to begin them on a lifelong love of learning.

The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go. He must still, to be a right man, be his mother’s darling, and...

Which story do you want to hear my child?”he picked him up and made him sit on his lap.”Tell us the story of that fairy who lived in a house of wafers,had a garden of...

I ten, kdo nemá děti, dává dál, a to skrze nalezení svého poslání a skrze lásku, kterou šíří v tomto případě ne na vlastní děti, ale na “všechny děti”. Mnoho spirituálních učitelů a několik moudrých...

Peki, niçin bize en gizli sırrını açmıştı? Nedenini sordum. -Çünkü siz çocuksunuz. Anlarsınız.

In the tell-me-again times, (…) when my mom and I lived in a little apartment in a little building downtown, I slept in her bed. It was a raft on the ocean, a cloud, a...

I can take care of myself, but I can’t take care of myself and a child. I’ve decided to give myself up for adoption.

A lot of Latinos are first-generation new citizens, or second-generation children of immigrants, who don’t have those deep roots of partisan attachment.

Once upon a time there was a huge family of children; and they were terribly, terribly naughty.

On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provision for discourse. In the present case it took up ten minutes to determine whether the boy were most like...

The only reason that they say, ‘Women and children first’ is to test the strength of the lifeboats.

Thus far we have been able to protect [our children] from the deep and enduring traumas that scar the minds and selves of so many of the patients I see. How — how?—can I make...

Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put...

It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they do not hide under the table, they eat only one sweet at a time, but later on, they make...

I guess when you’d lived as long, and pondered as much, as Old Tom had…a game of hopscotch could be more profound than village politics or gossip.

Only to the degree that people have what they need, that they are healthy and unafraid, that their lives are varied, interesting, meaningful, productive, joyous, can we begin to judge, or even guess, their nature....

Life begins at the day of birth. Birthday is a great day of honour.

DNA, DNA, DNA. You never ever deny it, fool. I thought he is my cold enemy. When he died, he became my father. Says Bhutta (Biography)

Resting on the roots of this old oak I lean back against his knotted trunk, shine my granny smith on my sleeve And ponder the days…

Farewell” is a word that, in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises absolutely nothing.

Looking at the children, she knew that any hope for a new life would have to grow within her. She glanced at Nate, wondering if he felt as she did, that children were the only...

Every time a written word is put to page it is the opportunity to expand our minds, whether we are the writer or the reader. Enjoy the journey wherever it may take you!

It is now for us, the living, to rededicate ourselves to his cause, … so that all the children of the Middle East will know a future free from violence and terror, enriched by prosperity...

Eure Kinder sind nicht eure Kinder. – Sie sind die Söhne und Töchter der Sehnsucht des Lebens nach sich selber.

Come on, this is a real adventure I have here, screamed Mikolay again, this time more impatiently.I think someone is singing inside the wardrobe. Can you hear that?

Logically, I understand that it wasn’t Edward’s fault my family fell apart after he left. But when you’re eleven years old, you don’t give a flip about logic. You just really miss holding your big...

The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from morning to night, hungry, naked and dirty. Children are the living flowers of...

In a universe where all life is in movement, where ever fact seen in perspective is totally engaging, we impose stillness on lively young bodies, distort reality to dullness, make action drudgery. Those who submit...

Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving...

If I had lady-spider legs, I would weave a sky where the stars lined up. Matresses would be tied down tight to their trucks, bodies would never crash through windshields. The moon would rise above...

You are still a child. You must go where you are told and do as you are told. But it won’t always be so. Soon you will be in charge of yourself. Until that time:...

Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature.

And if that’s the case — if we are our remembering selves — then it matters far less how we feel moment to moment with our children. They play rich and crucial roles in our...

In a country where children are unhappy, everyone is unhappy!

Even if Mary gives birth to a child who is not her husband’s, if she has a shining pride, they become a holy mother and child.

Most parents are not really ‘supportive’ because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they ‘support’ their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid appearing to have bred a failure, or, failures … in the eyes of...

It is time to say ‘yes’ to Europe, time to let go, as doting parents whose children have reached maturity must let go. Indeed, let us accelerate the day of Europe’s reclaiming its full independence...

I really love to read bedtime story for my kids before they fall asleep.Making them so excited and inspired, it’s truly my favorite quality time.

Children who paddle where the ocean bed shelves steeplyMust take great care they do not, Paddle too deeply.’Thus spake the awful aging coupleWhose heart the years had turned to rubble.But the little children, to save...

But wasn’t there some sort of rule that said parents had to be smarter than their kids? It didn’t seem fair.

Don’t let Leno and his San Francisco friends ruin our children.

As we embrace the mystery of love, we see that it contains not an absence of error, but the presence of grace. It contains not the absence of anger or pain, but the presence of...

We repeatedly tell patients we are not in a hurry; there are no trains to catch and we don’t care when the baby comes, only how! A doctor who is in a hurry does not...

At the toughest times I recalled how the children and the elderly looked at me with trustful eyes. Your faith has given me strength.