Quotes About Children

There's no question that our children's attention and memory is changing when they are reading too long, too much, too early on digital screens.

This is the richest country in the world. There's no reason kids should be going to school hungry. Food is something that everyone should have. It just is.

I used the Nobel money to buy a house and for the education of my children.

You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces; they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave.

If I could help educate our children at an institution for higher learning, that would be a noble thing.

Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.

I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.

That is the difference between St. Jude's and all other children's hospitals. The other hospitals are not bad at all; they're good hospitals, but they're just working with what they know, and St. Jude's is working with what nobody else knows, because they're doing research.

I've got to be a guide to my kids. Nobody else is going to do it.

There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help.

I give my children a lot of freedom, which I suppose a lot of parents don't do. I do have rules but nothing like no noise, no music.

Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.

My kids don't go back and forth; none of this 50/50 time with the mums and dads. My children live with me; that is it.

It's very hypocritical to constantly say, 'We want to keep our kids close,' then send them home with so much homework that family time becomes nonexistent.

The national nonprofit I founded, 'KaBOOM!,' is on a mission to save play for America's children, and has long been championing the cause in high-need communities.

My husband and I adopted our children through a private agency, Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children. As a nonprofit organization, it relies on client fees as well as donor support to do its work.

The good thing about kids is they want to be mobile; they want to be running around nonstop. They want to play. They want to be outside. So they're inherently more active than we are, because we get much lazier as we get older. Part of being a parent is keeping up with your kid.

Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted.

I try to keep a balance. I actually believe that children want normal parents, they don't want celebrities or important parents or anything different from all the other parents.

We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.

The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.

I normally sleep very well, but when I do have bad dreams, they always involve my children.

My children aren't normally allowed to watch a lot of things that I'm in.

My kids wake up at 7 o'clock every morning, so I'm normally up around 7.