Quotes About Children

Jesus, you love my children more than I ever will, so by faith I give them and their choices to you. Please infuse your Holy Spirit-guided thoughts into every decision they make, and bless them for each one they make in obedience to you. When they don't obey you, Lord, then I relinquish them to you once again to steer them back to you in your way and in your time. Amen.

While I may want to take my kids out of this world, God continually shows His power in our kids to help them stand firm in it!

Jill Carattini said that offering a blessing to another, specifically our children, is a high calling … a mysterious gift given to all made in God's image. The putting of God's name upon another soul as we go about life is our tongue's greatest utterance. It is a hopeful command, a most uplifted effort. As God's name is set forth, not only is it God who does the blessing, it is God who is the very fulfillment of the words we offer. God is the blessing

Gary Ladd's Pathways Project is a long-term study of the various influences on children's early and continuing educational progress. This longitudinal study of children from kindergarten through middle school examines aspects of family and school that affect children's academic success. Results indicate that when children have difficulty with their peer group at school, they perform less well on measures of learning and achievement.9

What is my end goal in raising each of the children God has entrusted to me, and then how will I parent them with that end in mind?

The single most important concern we should have as parents should be the same primary concern Jesus has for us: We must make it our ultimate goal to help our children know and love God with all their heart. How do we do that? One of the simplest and most powerful ways … is to give them a daily, concrete encounter with His power and favor by laying hands on them and speaking a blessing. Rolf Garborg, The Family Blessing

Because you realize you are a work in progress yourself, you offer your children grace when needed, while helping them see the correct path that God desires all His children to follow.

Our children need to see that faith matters, that it's relevant to our daily situations, that it's real.

It's a wonderful thing working with young actors. I know a lot of people don't like working with children. I actually adore it, because you watch their imagination open up and you watch them start to learn this job that I've been doing for so long. They come with such a lack of cynicism.

Out of all the things I do, I think being a mom is the most important and satisfying.

For some reason, when people meet me and find out I'm a writer they always ask if I write children's books. Um... please don't let your kids read my books. Well, unless your kids are in their 30s or something...then yeah, they're old enough. LOL

Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth.

For the past two years, President Obama has promised our children the moon, stars, rainbows, unicorns and universal health care for all. But the White House Santa's cradle-to-grave entitlement mandates are a spectacularly predictable bust.

I know how I'd feel if I had children. I'd never want them to feel I didn't love them more than anything else in the world. If I ever have a little girl, I think I'll be a wonderful mother to her, and if I can help it, I'll never be away from her for a minute.

As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.

We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

Fear of the dark. Until I came here, I thought that was for children; that you grew out of it. But it never really goes away. It's always there underneath. The oldest fear of all. What's at the back of the cave? Eriksson was right. One mustn't think too much. Keep busy, walk every day, that's what he said. I've got to follow that to the letter. Especially the walks.

Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, and hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kids' therapy.

I had never really thought of children as people, just as mysterious and needy creatures on their way to something greater.

Come on, Eden, don't be naive. Demonic children are a dime a dozen in Netherworld. Need I mention Children of the Corn? Damien? Justine Bieber?

Kids aren't bothers. They're blessings,

Special children require very patient parents. Anybody can lose it with a normal pre-teenager, let alone one who needs extra help and guidance.

Don't let the enemy come in and steal your children. Kill your family. Destroy your joy. According to John 10:10, that's all he comes to do. He's not here to hurt your feelings, make you sad and angry. That's just the tip of the iceberg. Honey, his goal is to kill you. Don't play with him. Fight him. Stand up to him. Defeat him. The victory belongs to God's people!

every child got a right to learn,