Quotes About Children

In the beginning when I sat next to Tom Brokaw on the 'Today' show, the stories I was interested in were those having to do with women and children and learning and health. In those days, 25 to 30 years ago, that was called soft news, and not in a nice way.

Most of us in the baby-boom generation were raised by full-time mothers. Even as recently as 14 years ago, 6 out of 10 mothers with babies were staying at home. Today that is totally reversed. Does that mean we love our children less than our mothers loved us? No, but it certainly causes a lot of guilt trips.

The question shouldn't be Am I happy? but rather, Does my life have meaning? And yes, my life has meaning. I've created two children, and loving them, caring for them, and helping prepare them for life gives my life purpose.

He's gorgeous because he's mine, but he won't be mine for long. Our children become part of the world so fast, and it's our job to prepare them, transition them, our job to love them and gracefully step back and let them go….

I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.

To some, having children may seem as conducive to travelling as having your feet set in concrete.

Most moderately active children – as long as they have full stomachs – cope well with exotic experiences, but parents should get fit for their trip. Young children will expect their parents to be All Powerful so they would be wise to prepare properly and arrive with toned quads or they might not keep up on the slopes.

More than a food, the pickle was a kind of drug for tenement children, who were still too young for whiskey.

Children under the age of 16, 17, or even 18 are generally not psychologically or emotionally mature enough to consent fully to sexual relationships with adults, or to participate in them on an equal footing.

Engaging with children in troublesome thinking is problematic, but important. Ignoring the hard stuff and only engaging in the fluff and fun from curriculum choices is to keep underground issues of social justice and to further silence and compound the inequity

Physical, social, mental and emotional development all continue. In some cases, children are left in care for extended periods. They form bonds with substitute parents which result in additional losses when those bonds are later severed. In other situations, children are moved so frequently that they learn not to trust or show affection to anyone. Their ability to form close and lasting bonds is permanently damaged.

If you have a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: take two, and keep away from children.

To reform the world - means to reform upbringing...

Pizza certainly has its place in school meals, but equating it with broccoli, carrots and celery seriously undermines this nation's efforts to support children's health and their ability to learn because of better school nutrition.

Virtually all observers agree that it is a terrible disadvantage for a child to come into the world without a father. Fatherless children are much more likely than those from two-parent homes to be poor, fail in school, commit crime, and, in turn, have fatherless children.

By 2008, illegitimacy had reached extraordinary levels: 72 percent for blacks, 66 percent for American Indians, 53 percent for Hispanics, 29 percent for whites, and 17 percent for Asians.185 A majority of black, Hispanic, and Indian children are therefore coming into the world without the support of a married couple.

This result is fascinating because it shows that children as young as 10 feel the need to try to avoid appearing prejudiced, even if doing so leads them to perform poorly on a basic cognitive test

The children of the underclass are growing up without rules and controls. They are doing what children naturally do if they do not have parents, teachers, friends, and grandparents to nag, praise, blame, punish, love, and worry about them. Government cannot act in place of those people.

Endless talk about enriched curricula, Head Start, empowerment, Afrocentrism, victimization, special education, dysfunctionality, self-esteem, social justice, role models, etc., fails to recognize the most important fact of all: All too often, the children of indigent, unmarried fifteen-year-olds start life with problems we cannot fix. Government programs cannot take the place of loving, responsible parents.

As the researchers noted, single people are more willing to live in mixed neighborhoods, but people with children seek homogeneity.84

The way I wrestle five-year-olds makes me think if I were ever attacked by a pack of midgets, I'd be OK.

One unexpected bonus of motherhood is the visual beauty. I am enchanted by the sights of my children, the tones of skin, the clear eyes, the grace, the curve of a hand and cheek, to see them racing across the back lawn in a certain slant of light.

In the pairs of mothers and their adult children that I have seen, mothers who cared for their children out of obligation are then cared for in their elderly years by their adult children out of a similar obligation.

Children who are emotionally abused and neglected face similar and sometimes worse mental health problems as children who are physically or sexually abused.