This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.

Children needed love, a reliable source of comfort, and an adult willing to take responsibility for them.

Children are a battle of a different sort. … A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.

60% of children are born to unwed mothers. I should start pulling out.

Do not throw me out. Please.

I’m going to name my firstborn son 0123456789, because I want him to learn to count before he learns the alphabet. And my second son I’ll call 01, because I want him to get into...

Children are not entirely human. There is a lot of the animal left in them.about the girl who needed her foot amputated. p170

Between car payments, getting married, buying property, having children, dealing with deaths, most people walk a very tight rope with debt. They make the huge mistake of only making minimum payments. Once something goes wrong...

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

Hutch called into the semidarkness of The Shed. ‘Somebody’s coming, Heck!’Then he, with the rest, faded from sight with that uncanny quickness known only to creatures of the wild and young children who are, after...

It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.

Do not expect too much from your child and she will grow in your love… But if you push her too much, you will push her away. A child is not yours to own but...

Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms...

There were no fear of death in children’s eyes because they had seen hanging, stoning to death and chopping heads in playgrounds and parks.

single” about a single mom.

Beware of what you teach your children in the womb.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

No ordinance can protect the children of our community 100 percent. The ordinance is just one tool available. Parents still need to know where their kids are and what they’re up to.

There’s no single effort more radical in it’s potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my son and some first impressions of fatherhood. He responded, simply, ‘Everything is possible...

The best way to encourage your children is to let them know you are praying for them.

Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?

so that it isn’t upsetting to anybody. It’s something we’ve always known about fairy tales – they talk about incest, the Oedipus complex, about psychotic mothers, like those of Snow White and Hansel and Gretel,...

Dogs are like kids. Cats are like roommates.

A lot of gyms are realizing their new demographic includes teens and children.

There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of...

Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly.

We are accustomed to repeating the cliché, and to believing, that ‘our most precious resource is our children.’ But we have plenty of children to go around, God knows, and as with Doritos, we can...

For while they’d stayed close during the absurd years of his sharp rise, having children had knocked it all into a different arrangement. The minute you had children you closed ranks. You didn’t plan this...

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.

Make no mistake, every child has his own light, no matter how difficult or defiant or unlikeable he or she might seem.

It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

They love their children. They want them back. They are truly devastated.

Don’t ever have children, Tyler, unless you’re ready to be afraid everyday for the rest of your life.

One of the messages from this study is that children born preterm should have their blood pressure checked at follow-up visits, at least when they reach school age, because it may be important to consider...

It’s especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.

If you don’t take pets, or if your house is not set up for small children, we need to know.

Fair and unfair are for children

God never abandons His children.

I’m Reginald Clark, I’m afraid of the darkSo please do not close this book on me.

worrisome. It’s romanticism, and it’s dangerous to have children and students on the street.

Outnumbered again. Come in and feed the face.

Parenting is a sacred responsibility with the sobering reality, of raising scholars or scars.

My late husband and I started our sons off as readers at a very young age. Today, they are voracious readers.

Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

I have two young children and I do feel optimistic that everything will be fine. I feel like I’m in the best health I’ve ever been.

The pattern of insomnia in children reflects difficulty in getting to sleep, whereas with adults it’s a problem staying asleep,

The joy of reading with our children doesn’t stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes.

What do you do,’ said Jean, ‘with, ah, “ungifted” children when you have them?”Cherish them and raise them, you imbecile. Most of them end up working for us, in Karthain and elsewhere. What did you...