Quotes About Children

I'm from a small town so, like, everyone's married with children or about to have children. So it's a little hard when you go home and people are like - and that's why people think I'm gay - because they're like 'Why aren't you married?' And I'm like, 'it doesn't happen for everyone right off the bat.'

Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.

I have a wonderful marriage and two great kids.

They are amazing kids so we let them make decisions but also have discipline.

Young children who constantly hear "person" praise ("you're so smart to do this well") as opposed to "task" praise ("you did that well") are more likely to believe that intelligence is fixed rather than expandable with hard work.

Dead children do not give us memories, they give us dreams." Thomas Lynch, The Undertaking   I

Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.

How many children were alive at the time of the Flood? When a civilization becomes evil, who usually pays the price first? It is the children and babies. How many ancient cultures killed or sacrificed children? Far too many! In the Bible, we find evil people like Pharaoh of Egypt trying to kill baby boys through the midwives when they were born.

But some object and ask, what about the "innocent children" — if there were any left — at the time of the Flood? First they weren't innocent (Romans 3:2329). But again, the onus would be on the parents and guardians who refused to allow their evil children the possibility of survival on the ark!

All kids have tremendous talents — and we squander them pretty ruthlessly.

There isn't an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?

When children aren't given the space to struggle through things on their own, they don't learn to problem-solve very well. They don't learn to be confident in their own abilities, and it can affect their self-esteem.

They have marginalized the very capabilities our children need to create a more equitable and sustainable world, including creativity, critical thinking, citizenship, collaboration, and compassion.

young children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations ... Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up

Adults need spiritual apprenticeships as much as their children do—and adults need them first. Group spiritual direction, covenant groups, practice in oral prayer, lay leadership in worship, singing hymns and praise songs—and of course, the formal practice of testimony itself—are congregational practices that give adults, and not just teenagers, opportunities to put faith into words.

how the innate and insatiable curiosity young children have about the world gets absolutely killed by the tedium of school.

ROMANS 8:14, 16–17 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ.

Mothers and Dads: Your home atmosphere is the product of WORDS. Children fail because wrong WORDS were spoken. The right WORDS were not spoken.

God, my Heavenly Father, does not have any favorite children. He loves every one of us with the same love.

1 JOHN 4:4 4 YE ARE OF GOD, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

When you and I became born again, God became our Father. He is a love God. We are love children of a love God, because we have been born of God, and God is love. The nature of God in us is love. We have His nature in our spirit, not in our flesh. (We've got the flesh to contend with, but we can "crucify" it.) And

Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding.

Let us put our minds together and see what kind of life we can make for our children." — Sitting Bull I

We were taught that the old people and the babies were the closest to God and it was for them that we all lived. They were the most helpless and they needed us the most.