Quotes About Children

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.—George Bernard Shaw

Little tape recorders, that's what kids are, Cat thought. If you want to find out what your husband is saying behind your back, play Barbie with your daughter.

Not that having multiple children diminished the loss of another, but when there was only one and they were lost, there was nothing left at all.

The cruel paradox of weekends with kids can be boiled down to this: Parents want to relax. Kids do not.

Mothers have to do a poo in four parts because a child will cry, and then they try and finish off but the child needs them again!

mothers drove the fathers' cortisol changes, while, in a dismaying trickle-down effect, fathers drove changes in their kids' cortisol.

it's not children who extinguish the flame of desire—it's the adults who fail to keep the spark alive.

Research shows that doing chores makes children thrive in countless ways, and is a proven predictor of success, says Richard Rende, associate professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown Medical School.

With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young children to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world!

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable lesson in patience and understanding...and snatch an opportunity to shape character.

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now.

Again a great procession is led forth, the senate and the priests walk in it, and with them come representatives of each class of the State—children and young boys, and youths just come to manhood, epheboi, as the Greeks called them.

While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.

Laywers, I suppose, were children once.

Apie praeit?, nebent ji b?t? be galo laiminga, vaikai kalb?ti nelink?.

Marginalised and abused children are often overlooked even today, and risk becoming marginalised and abused adults who may never receive acknowledgment or respect for the immense physical and emotional burden they carry from childhood or indeed have their full potential realised.

My happiest moments are when all my children are okay. That's just how life is. We've all been through it ourselves. It is hard, because you are so bon of their bone, skin of their skin. You feel things so strongly, if you are truly a loving parent.

My happiest moments are when all my children are okay. That's just how life is. We've all been through it ourselves. It is hard, because you are so bone of their bone, skin of their skin. You feel things so strongly, if you are truly a loving parent.

Two parents, to say nothing of one, cannot possibly satisfy all the needs of a family-household. A community is needed as well, for raising children, and also to keep adults reasonably sane and cheerful. A community is a complex organism with complicated resources that grow gradually and organically.

Tut! Magic, indeed! As if there weren't marvels enough without magic. Pictures traveling by telephone, and men bouncing up and down on the moon? Trees and floors and children growing? There are your real marvels.

Children from healthy families may work out childhood traumas in the playroom, while children of addicted families find themselves working out the painful traumas of the past in real life.

These children learn to adapt to life rather than learning how to live their lives.