Quotes About Children

Onlar? dinleyin, gecenin çocuklar?n?. Ne güzel müzik yap?yorlar!

Hören Sie nur - die Kinder der Nacht. Welch eine Musik sie machen!

Listen to them, the children of the night. What sweet music they make.

Listen to them - the children of the night. What music they make!

Somehow she had to find some middle ground between taking a stand for the right and being there for her children, even when they did the exact opposite of what she told them.

The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were so hungry and unfulfilled that they ate their own children.

Bueno lo del matrimonio no está mal...Pero lo de hacer de padre es más duro. Papi ¿puedo beberme un zumo? ¿Qué tal un poco de agua, cielo? ¿Papi? ¿Sí? ¿Puedo beberme un zumo? ¿Qué tal un poco de agua, cielo? ¿Papi, puedo beberme un zumo? Vale cielo, ¿Quieres un zumo? No, da igual, beberé un poco de agua. Es como si estuviéramos todo el rato ensayando una puta obra de Beckett

when wealth is your god, weapons are your sacrament, and your own children are your sacrifice—

Machines are fully functional from the day of their programming." Erasmus sounded smug. "That explains a lot. For us, life is a gradual developmental process. Without nurturing, we can't survive," she said. "You have never been nurtured. I think you should make improvements to the way you raise the slave children in your pens. Show them more kindness, encourage their curiosity.

I was pretty good at picking up new languages when I was little, but it's not like I had superpowers or anything. Kids just have an easier time with words.

By the time they're out of preschool, most children have already seen thousands of acts of violence.

No matter how much freedom they're given, most kids are still glorified props, carefully shuttled from one secure location to the next. We're not children, we're eggs.

The law of correspondence says your outer world is a mirror of your inner world. Your outer world corresponds to your inner world. Your outer world of your relationships—especially with your children and spouse—simply corresponds to how you feel about yourself, how you're doing

try a democratic environment. Ask your child's opinions, make them feel as though they matter and their feelings are valued. The same time and energy spent on an argument later can be spent listening to their opinions in the first place. When you take your child's feelings into consideration, when you ask their opinions, it makes them feel important even if they don't always get their way.

You can't decide to value your child sometimes, and then put a game of Farmville, or golf, or a scrapbooking session before kids on other days. Values are non-negotiable like that.

Parents are responsible for 40 to 50 percent of a child's habits. Children are greatly influenced, not just by their parents' efforts at persuasion, but also by their behavior.

Is It Baby Fat or Real Fat? The answer partly depends on the parents. A study of 854 Washington State children under three years old showed that a child is nearly three times as likely to grow up obese if one of his parents is obese. If you're overweight, your child has a 65–75 percent chance of growing up to be overweight. So, is that little paunch on your fourth grader baby fat? Not if you're sporting the same paunch.

A meta-analysis of sixty-six studies completed in 1992 found that mothers who have more support from grandmothers have less stress and more well-adjusted children. The more involved the grandmothers are, the more involved dads are, too.

As many conventionally unhappy parents did in the 1950s, my parents stayed together for the sake of the children—they divorced after my youngest brother left home for college. I only wish they had known that modeling their dysfunctional relationship was far more damaging to their children than their separation would have been.

The time we are given for parenting is so short, passes so quickly and is jumbled up with so many other priorities and disruptions that, in the end, we come to doubt that we used it in the best interests of our children.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

If your happiness depends on your children being happy, that makes them your hostages. So stay out of their business, stop using them for your happiness, and be your own happiness. And that way you are the teacher for your children: someone who knows how to live a happy life.

Whose business are my children? Their business! When we're mentally out of our children's business, we have a shot at happiness, and so do they, because finally there's an example in the house.

your children are either the center of your life or they're not, and the rest is commentary