His house to me was a child was a heart of happiness. If there is a wonder childhood possesses which makes it forever superior to what shall come after, it is the happy and uncritical...

I am far from a perfect dad. And I always will be. But I’m a damn good dad, and my son will always feel bigger than anything life can throw at him. Why? Because I...

Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child’s relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don’t know as much as we think we know.

It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.

They’re a pair of young Satans.

Children are meant to grow up, and not to become Peter Pans. Not to lose innocence and wonder, but to proceed on the appointed journey: that journey upon which it is certainly not better to...

I hate our current leaders becouse they don’t know the value of there people, but like there ideas because it will soon turn against them and any of there kind.

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you’ve trained them.

Cough is very common in children. However, cough and cold medicines are not useful in children and can actually be harmful. In most cases, a cough that is unrelated to chronic lung conditions, environmental influences,...

Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them...

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.

The best part about having kids is not actually having to have kids. Thank you, women.

Well that came out horribly wrong!

Wait,” Honey said to herself, as she realized something amazing. “I’m already an excellent flyer. Maybe I can fight crime too.

Children should enjoy the few years they have just being a kid.

Parenting is a partnership. Loving each other has a big impact on your children.

I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way round.

You are what you eat. What would YOU like to be?

Once, [Rabbi Chanoch] Teller was traveling with 16 of his [18] offspring … while changing planes in Frankfurt, Teller noticed a German woman gaping. ‘Are all of these your children?’ the woman asked. ‘From one...

What parent can give to their children is the gift of daily prayer.

People tend to raise the child inside of them rather than the child in front of them.

Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn’t mean you don’t have them.

Children are lovable and adorable.

It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced – when they still imagine that children and property can be shared with more magnanimity than...

Anybody who hates dogs and babies can’t be all bad.

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions – simple once they are stated, vastly...

We are finding, more and more, children are isolated from nature. Going to the Laguna is a big deal for them.

Increasingly, the girl child is becoming an endangered specie aspedophiles’ continue to roam free in our societies terrorizingthe lives of our children and stripping them of all the joy andexcitement that comes with childhood.

It occurred to Raule that all children were monsters in the world and were instinctively aware of it. They were reminded of their anomalous nature by adults, whom they failed to resemble, and with whose...

Sometimes it seemed difficult for the adults in Sophie’s life to tell between ‘carried away’ and ‘absolutely correct but unbelieved.

I’m Farina,the fairy queen.

[I] don’t think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This made sense: you cut, you felt pain, period.

Because of the times, and because the child has been living in a world filled with every kind of thrill and adventure, it is safe to assume that he is not interested in the same...

I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.

Your children are not your children. / They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

The children are the future, so, let’s tell them about tomorrow’s hope rather than yesterday’s despair.

Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.

He still had the power to stagger her at timessimply the fact that he was breathing that all his organs were in their proper places that blood flowed quietly and effectively through his small sturdy...

Middle-income children are being left behind. Children in poverty have access to Head Start. Upper-income parents buy whatever is best for their child — usually a preschool of very high quality. It’s the middle class...

He switched off the light, came back and sat in the chair. In the darkness, Liesel kept her eyes open. She was watching the words.

All the games were selected for them by supervisors and had to have some useful, educational purpose. The children learned these new games but unlearned something else in the process: they forgot to be happy,...

Now I understand why women want to have children – it’s simply the urge to create happiness for yourself, somehow to fill the oppressive, unbearable emptiness in your soul.

if you want to understand your child better then see through the child’s eye.

I had uncovered a widely held but overlooked attachment: our attachment to the view that every problem must have a solution. We delude ourselves that we can think our way out of a problem or...

Kid’s books should be just as good as any other books. No. They should be held to a *higher* standard than other literature for the same reason that we take extra care with children’s food.

Remember when only a few people had mobile phones. Generally regarded as an object of derision, you would occasionally see business types clutching those ridiculous grey bricks to their faces and mutter to yourself ‘what...

I would never think of doing a movie for children if I did not have any, … A lot of things in the film I know about. I relate to all the sufferings much more...

[C]hildren were a much more difficult audience than adults because no on had yet had a chance to teach them that it was better to be polite than honest.

The mother is the child’s first relationship, his whole world, his existence. If there is love in the relationship between the child and the mother, the child learns to trust himself, to trust others and...