Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk tome about money and what it can buy. But it can’t buy back a child once he’s dead!

Your children will see what you’re all about by what you live rather than what you say.

No parent/home/child/teacher/school has an all-round 100 percent wholeness. We all have limitations and problems. But I must never think it is all or nothing. Perhaps I’d like to live in the country, but I don’t....

When a woman miscarries, the experience of the father is often forgotten. But men grieve pregnancy loss too…

It is not what you leave to your children that matters, but what you leave in them.

It is important for parents to talk to their children about good touches and bad touches.

Children are more than we think they are; they can do more than we think they can do. All they need is a vote of confidence from grownups, whom they will ultimately replace anyway. Their...

You only talk about moving forward with the same bad ideas that got us into this mess. Even when the only sensible thing to do is pull the emergency brake. You are not mature enough...

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Children don’t understand, when things aren’t given. The single parent struggling to provide; how they sacrifice themselves, by sweeping their dreams and goals under the table, just to bring bread and beans on the table.

…we are partisan in favor of our own children and grandchildren, who we hope can live in a world that doesn’t poison them when they drink the water, breathe the air, or make a living.

When we talk with our children about sexual abuse, we are not only taking a proactive step toward protecting them, we are building our relationship with them–grounded in honesty and trust. It’s a win-win situation.

It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.

Our culture of violence is an incubator, where our children are the crop of future techno-warrior killers.

Children take joy in their work and sometimes as adults we forget that’s something we should continue doing.

…take down your baby bump photos from Facebook, take down pictures of your kids too. It is your job to protect your children and not parade them around like little circus freaks or glorified mini-you’s.

…children and their children.

How much blood will it take to make them stop? How many more children must die?

. . . such a rush immediately ensued that she with laughing face and plundered dress was borne towards it the centre of a flushed and boisterous group, just in time to greet the father,...

The schools wear the blank faces of war buildings, their windows blown blind by rocks or guns or mortars. Their plaster is an acne of bullet marks. The huts and small houses crouch open and...

At this stage of my life, I’ve finally come to realize I’ve learned more from my children than they ever learned from me.

I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else’s.

He also learned to regard each port of call as part of the journey and not as destination. Every voyage begins when you do.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

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...