Quotes About Children

Children from violent households made great lie detectors because their ability to read people and situations wasn't just a hobby—it was a survival skill. The

No hay niños difíciles. Hay adultos a quienes nos resulta más fácil desplegar nuestra energía y nuestros intereses en otros ámbitos.

Para qué sirve jugar con los hijos? Es la manera más directa de entrar en relación con ellos. Generalmente, les pedimos que se adapten al mundo de los adultos –cosa que hacen, por ejemplo, soportando largas jornadas escolares–. Jugar con ellos es hacer el camino inverso: nosotros nos adaptamos un rato al mundo de los niños. Parece ser un trato justo. Definitivamente, jugar es una cosa seria. Y los niños están dispuestos a enseñarnos las reglas.

Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.

What was the point of giving children freedom to experiment and fail, if one then turned it all into a tiresome object lesson?

Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child." Sunny

But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.

Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?

If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

Denial of perpetration is simply not evidence that none has occurred, because even when there is physical evidence of abuse, sexual abusers of children may continue to deny that they did anything....The tactics of the false memory movement have shown remarkable parallels to those of sexual abusers who attempt to silence their victims, and I wonder why this is.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.

As adults, overall, in two-parent families have spent more time working for pay, the time they spend interacting with their kids has also increased.

What's the point of obsessing over cholesterol or bike helmets or even cigarettes when the biggest threats to our children are being released back into society every day?

Doesn't anyone realize that one 'touch', one 'time' will destroy a child's life ten times faster than a pack-a-day habit?

A Lillian B. Rubin) Los niños le dan la impresión de ser realistas depresivos, que en general no idealizan las luchas de sus padres ni sus formas de sobrevivir, mientras que al mismo tiempo se sienten protectores en relación con ellos por lo normal de su humillación social.

It's true," said Freddie Humbert. "Kids nowadays have got no ability to listen to simple instructions." "Here you go, Dad," said Quent, returning with a tray of drinks. "Two martinis, one with extra olives, one with no olives, one mineral water, ice, and a twist of lime, and a jade juice, no fruit.

When God made His covenant with Abraham, He promised that He would "make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky." Jesus is the needle who sews the children of God who are not direct descendants of Abraham into that nighttime sky.

It always made me sad that there were kids who didn't have homes.

It's what you feel, and guess what? Feelings are like three-year-olds. They're not rational. They're just there.

Not once has the instructor talked about parenting after the baby is born. Instead, we fetishize labor. We focus on it to the exclusion of each other, our children, our futures. Is this because it can be taught, and parenting can't? Because, Americans to the bitter end, we love a sport, grow bored by things more subtle?

Our children are not ours because we have given them our genes. They are ours because we have had the audacity to envision them.

Those seemingly interminable dark walks between houses, long before street-lit safety became an issue, were more adrenalizing than the mountains of candy filling the sack. Sadly Halloween, with our good-natured attempts to protect the little ones, from the increasingly dangerous traffic and increasingly sick adults, has become an utter bore.