Quotes About Children

Every day, children are exposed to messages - whether on giant hoardings and TV ads or from looking in friends' lunchboxes - telling them that they should like the very foods that will do them the most harm.

Every culture seems to have certain challenging vegetables that children find hard to love at first bite.

Many parents, especially those who themselves struggle with their weight, believe that a child is incapable of self-control when it comes to eating.

Of all the foods that we could give a child a free rein over, cereal makes the least sense. Parents let children choose cereal but dictate which vegetables they eat; it should be the other way around.

The cereals marketed for children are consistently the most sugary and highly processed in the whole cereal aisle.

If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory.

Lots of people don't think little kids understand what adults are thinking or doing, Sometimes they - the adults, I mean - behave as if children are deaf and can't hear what's being said right in front of them. But none of that is true: they do understand, and even if they don't know what the words mean, they can feel the emotions behind the words.

Heck, he would happily have enough kids with Molly to make their own soccer team.

With initial understanding, Dexter replied, "Trust me, I definitely understand. See, I can't help myself either." Then, his tone swinging toward anger, said, "But children, I could never do that, not like you. Never, ever kids.

Nelson immediately told him to give Betty however much money she wanted, in order to promptly resolve the custody dispute, which was only hurting the children.

When Mrs. Sardotopolis got home there would be eight other children to take care of. But that was a simple matter. None of them was sick. When the eight children weren't sick they tumbled, shrieked and squealed in the dark hallway or in the street. Anywhere. Mrs. Sardotopolis only listened with half an ear. As long as they made noise they were healthy. So from day to day she listened not for their noise but to hear if any of them grew quiet.

Of all the things I have learned since becoming a parent(and sometimes, it feels as if this might be everything I've learned), perhaps the hardest to accept is that it is selfish and possibly even dangerous to desire particular outcomes for our children.

Like all of us, children just want to be needed. It's our job to make sure they actually are.

there will be much personal misery . . . if fertility is so low that four grandparents must share one grandchild, and if lots of grandparents don't have grandchildren.

easier to imagine starting a family where we were known only as a couple—no memory of Rachel, no complicated preexisting social networks, no potentially difficult relations nearby. I wanted children badly, maybe in part to mark how different my second marriage was from the first.

The government doesn't allow sales of flammable children's pajamas, for example, no matter how clear the warning label.

we both strongly believed all children deserved a quality education.

is not right that children be dunked headfirst into the vat of garbage we call popular culture.

We have the ability to treat everyone equally under law; we have the ability to create governments to protect individual rights. But we don't have the ability to guarantee that even two kids the same age living on the same street will start from the same point; two children growing up in the same family don't even start from the same point. We certainly don't have the ability to ensure that everyone ends at the same point.

Since the legally and morally despicable decision of the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade in 1973, American women have aborted some 56 million children. The vast majority of these children have been aborted for reasons that have nothing to do with rape, incest or the health of the mother. We have destroyed an entire generation of children purely for self-worship. Children are difficult; therefore, they can be done away with. Children are burdensome; therefore, they don't exist in the womb.

It's because black, Hispanic and Native-American children are disproportionately likely to live with single mothers. And children living with single mothers misbehave more often than those living with fathers. A study from Great Britain of 14,000 children showed that children were twice as likely to manifest behavioral problems by the age of 7 than those raised by their natural parents. Those numbers continue to diverge as children grow older.

MORGAN: I'm not the one who came in here and accused you of standing on the graves of dead children -- SHAPIRO: Because you're the one who is doing that. I'm punching back twice as hard. MORGAN: That's what I call bullying. SHAPIRO: You know what I call it? Punching back twice as hard, in the words of President Obama.

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.