Quotes About Children

Depending on whom you ask, time is money, time is love, time is work, time is play, time is enjoying friends, time is raising children, and time is much more. Time is what you make of it.

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children. War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.

When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: "Don't think, don't politicize, forget about the true causes of their poverty, just act, contribute money, so that you will not have to think!"

Reverence is an emotion that we can nurture in our very young children, respect is an attitude that we instill in our children as they become school-agers, and responsibility is an act that we inspire in our children as they grow through the middle years and become adolescents.

My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.

Carrie is my child, and I love her with every ounce of strength I possess. If love alone could cure our children, they would always be well.

the observation made by novelist Fay Weldon: "The greatest advantage of not having children must be that you can go on believing you are a nice person. Once you have children, you understand how wars start.

In 1847 three English children fell seriously ill after eating birthday cake decorated with arsenic-tinted green leaves.

He confessed to stalking, torturing, and assaulting 400 children while traveling the country.

Massachusetts is seeing a surge in the number of unvaccinated children. Last year nearly 1,200 kids entered kindergarten with religious or philosophical vaccine exemptions, roughly double the total about a decade ago.

Kincaid refrained from saying that few children seemed to appreciate being given advantages their parents lacked—they saw such benefits as their due.

As a group, attachment-challenged children need to be looked at differently. This is a group of children who have experiences and fears of being separated from parent figures. Until they can rebuild some of their emotional security, their time in child-care must be restricted.

Unless challenges stand in the way, children naturally respond to trustworthy, nurturing, and sensitive parents by forming a trusting and secure relationship.

The rule of thumb is that, when first placed, children will relate to new parents in much the same way that they related to former parents or orphanage workers. Without intervention, often this relationship style persists. Parents who are aware of both their own and their children's challenges in forming trust relationships and emotional modulation are in the best position to develop strategies to strengthen their families and to meet the challenges.

Parents must understand that their children are not inferior for having to work through additional tasks during childhood. In comparison to most of their peers, such children will be working harder to enjoy stability and happiness in life. Parents will be working alongside their children toward the same end.

Children who have been moved need reassurance about the permanent nature of families. In many cases they have specific worries troubling them. Blanket reassurances do not reassure.

All development is sequential and adaptive. Physical development unfolds in an orderly progression. Children first creep, then crawl, walk, run and hang from their knees or do cartwheels. Similarly, emotional growth unfolds sequentially and in stages.

Events that cause out-of-home placement often occur during the toddler or preschool years. At that age it is normal for children to believe that they are the cause of life's events. Children's egocentricity, which is a normal part of personality development, results in excessive feelings of responsibility. Children are shamed by the meaning that they derive from maltreatment or loss—that it was something that emanated from them.

Ultimately, to promote attachment, a great deal of control has to be taken from children.

When parents and children enter shared helplessness, children make no progress. Instead, they experience their parents as helpless peers. Parents who tell children that they are safe, and that ways to continue to help them will be pursued, are beacons of reassurance to children.

Some children benefit from an extra hour of sleep when they are going through regressions. Often they need more rest time to help them to cope better. After finding that an earlier bedtime works over a few cycles, children will often volunteer that they need an earlier bedtime when they are going through hard times.

When children are regressing, increase nurture. Usually the fighting or distancing is caused by fear. Parents can help the agitated child to slow down, accept comfort, talk about feelings, or improve his physical state. Gradually, children learn to seek out parents when they are hurting.

Children who are permanently separated from their parents face a mourning process that is similar to children's reactions to a parent's death. In fact, the parents, with their connection and resources and care, are permanently lost to children. The literature that describes children's reactions to a loss of the parent through death is quite relevant to the population of later-placed adopted children, or children in the foster care system who have lost attachment figures.

Practice Compliance Children can be given five-minute sessions in which they do things that their parents ask them to do. This time is structured, fun, and filled with praise. It resembles the "Simon Says" game. Children do what parents say, and get lots of attention. This game starts to redefine what it means when parents are in charge. Instead of feeling like they are losing, children find that it feels silly, non-threatening, and fun. This starts to redefine control.