Quotes About Children

husband in your love for your children. A very natural and forgivable mistake, Meg, but one that had better be remedied before you take to different ways

It was easier to try for your sakes than my own; a startled or surprised look from one of you, when I spoke sharply, rebuked me more than any words could have done; and the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.

but what mother was ever proof against the winning wiles, the ingenious evasions, or the tranquil audacity of the miniature men and women who so early show themselves accomplished Artful Dodgers?

they will be loving children to you, will do their duty faithfully, fight their bosom enemies bravely, and conquer themselves so beautifully, that when I come back to them I may be fonder and prouder than ever of my little women.

Six children are huddled into one bed to keep from freezing, for they have no fire. There is nothing to eat over there, and the oldest boy came to tell me they were suffering hunger and cold.

It takes so little to make a child happy, it is a pity grown people do not oftener remember it and scatter little bits of pleasure before the small people

Seems to me poor children

to the great delight of two ducks, four cats, five hens and half a dozen Irish children; for they were out of the city for now.

He would compensate for his long absence by extravagant shows of generosity with his children.

She enjoyed direct contact with the immigrant families and took special delight in dressing up dolls for their children.

Adieu best of wives and best of women. Embrace all my darling children for me.

Someday, the realm of liberty and justice will encompass the planet. Freedom is not just the birthright of the few, it is the God-given right of all His children, in every country. It won't come by conquest. It will come, because freedom is right and freedom works. It will come, because cooperation and good will among free people will carry the day.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with. Well, we've discovered that money alone isn't the answer.

Preparing for the future must begin, as always, with our children. We need to set for them new and more rigorous goals.

La cuestión es que mi cabeza, como la de los niños, va inventando historias todo el rato. No lo hago a propósito, no es una decisión voluntaria: simplemente la imaginación se enciende por sí sola.

She had loved them all, her children. Loved each one the best, but for different reasons.

But did she read to Cara, the books that Cara loved? The Borrowers and The Railway Children and every word of The Secret Garden.) Did she love the children, or simply possess them?

I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.

One of the greatest obstacles for blind children, not just in Tibet but everywhere in the world, is that they are seldom treated equally with sighted children, that they are perceived as being helpless, as somehow special and different. In families and the community beyond, very little is expected of the blind child. This reinforces in them the feeling that they are useless and incapable. Special isn't good either way.

A kid shouldn't need a diagnosis to access help.

Behaviorally challenging kids are challenging because they're lacking the skills to not be challenging.

The essential function of challenging behavior is to communicate to adults that a kid doesn't possess the skills to handle certain demands in certain situations.

When is challenging behavior most likely to occur? When the demands being placed on a kid exceed his capacity to respond adaptively.