I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.

Education teaches children to lose interest in what matters most to them.

As far as she could see, children mostly argued, shouted, ran around very fast, laughed loudly, picked their noses, got dirty and sulked.

More silence; children’s silence, so desperately desired by adults yet eerie when it finally occurs.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it

Even before i had children, I knew that being a parent was going to be challenging as well as rewarding. But I didn’t really know.I didn’t know how exhausted it was possible to become, or...

Critics who treat ‘adult’ as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is...

The child, unhampered, does not waste time.

I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales.

I enjoy load shedding in Nepal, when it allows me to witness the dancing of fireflies in the next field, and at the same time to hear children playing a chanting clapping game because there...

We decided to become development psychologists and study children because there aren’t any Martians. These brilliant beings with the little bodies and big heads are the closest we can get to a truly alien intelligence...

An informed parent or caregiver becomes empowered, and empowerment can lead to the best care for our children.

We say those who suffered here … your suffering is not in vain. We assure you that we, the children of the world, will learn new lessons. We will define the future, not hatred, not...

Und wenn ich mal heirate, dann muss mein Mann zwei Bedingungen erfüllen: Er muss Bücher und Kinder lieben, alles andere ist nicht so wichtig. Ich meine, wie er aussieht und so. Obwohl es ja nicht...

A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world....

Margarida atingira os seus cinco anos. Uma idade fácil para as crianças, é aquela idade em que basta mostrar a mão aberta para dizer há quanto tempo calcorreia este mundo inabitado por Deus.

Today’s troubled homes are made by parents who want to have children but don’t want their children to have parents

The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely … Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one...

I wept this morning thinking about our city and thinking about the many families and children that probably drowned in their homes, so it’s incredibly sad. And yet somehow at the same time we’ve experienced...

The very old and the very young have something in common that makes it right that they should be left alone together. Dawn and sunset see stars shining in a blue sky; but morning and...

Watoto hawatakiwi kuchungwa kupita kiasi hasa katika kipindi hiki ambacho dunia imekata tamaa. Ukiwanyima watoto uhuru wa kuwa watoto leo watakuwa na uhuru wa kuwa watoto kesho. Uhuru utakaowanyima wakiwa wadogo watakuja kuutafuta baadaye wakiwa...

All of the children out there deserve to come home to their parents the way, the way Elizabeth has come back to us, … And I just hope and pray that Congress will quickly pass...

Do we not see the influence we have when we say we believe in one thing, but our children see us living something else? Do we not realize how little we encourage our children to...

Education is our path to change. Minds and hearts are brightened via learning.

God speaks of his children shining best in ways that only he can provide. The heavens lift one as a golden child while the flesh lowers one to a child with gold.

As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the gradual and conscious expression of his personality in literature the...

It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and angels and high elves and that was our reality. If...

A young child is a leader to an elderly person once his purpose has a faithful, sincere and trustworthy influence on people. Leadership is not restricted to position and age; it is self-made and influencial....

Parents don’t become inaccessible to your Children, when they don’t get the right information from you, they may get the wrong one from an outsider; you are their Caretaker..be wise!

You’re asking me to choose between two children, the one that pays more and the one that I secretly love more. With the acting, it’s somebody else’s brainchild, and I’m just sort of helping flesh...

If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.

Dance your Soulful path / and you shall know the magic / of your mind & heart / and all the beauty laughing / to fill your rising self.

Why, the whole world of knowledge is not worth that child’s prayer to ‘dear, kind God’! I say nothing of the sufferings of grown-up people, they have eaten the apple, damn them, and the devil...

One of pleasures of parenting, future reader: parent can positively influence kid, make moment kid will remember for rest of life, moment that alters his/her trajectory, opens up his/her heart + mind.

God has called us to something vastly bigger than our happiness or that of our children.

For such small heads, little kids seem to have the biggest brains. No disrespect to midgets.

Leave your mark on the world by leaving behind a child who grows up to love and serve the Lord.

The Children’s HourBetween the dark and the daylight,When the night is beginning to lower,Comes a pause in the day’s occupations,That is known as the Children’s Hour.I hear in the chamber above meThe patter of little...

It’s said that sport is the civilised society’s substitute for war, and also that the games we play as children are designed to prepare us for the realities of adult life. Certainly it’s true that...

He looked the boy up and down as if he had never seen a child before and wasn’t quite sure what he was supposed to do with one: eat it, ignore it or kick it...

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

cranky.” And big, gulping sobs, or sad, unhappy young minds, in a tiny body should not occur in any community of civilization. Adulthood holds many an opportunity for such conditions. Childhood should not.

When I was a child, I thought like a child.When I became adult, I seek a deeper understanding of life.

This is the same type of doll as that handed out on several occasions by US soldiers to children.

People worried too much about their children. Suffering when you’re young is good for you. It immunized your body and soul…

Children remind us that we’re all children.

Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.

I snap and storm around and then spend long nights thinking of the most damaged adults I know and wondering if my particular brand of maternal fuckups are how they ended up like that.

Today our children are our reflection. Tomorrow they will be our shadows.

Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer...