“This kind of parenting was typical in much of Asia—and among Asian immigrant parents living in the United States. Contrary to the… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“And our Divine Parents have been molding God Child’s soul from stardust. And They have been breathing life-breath into its nose, and… — Stefan Emunds Copy Share Image
Being an adult child was an awkward, inevitable position. You went about your business in the world: tooling around, giving orders, being… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is… — Socrates Copy Share Image
An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“Turning and climbing, the double helix evolved to an operation which had always existed as a possibility for mankind, the eating of… — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm half-Armenian. Even though my grandparents did not discuss the genocide, and my father - like many sons and daughters of immigrants… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
“How strange was the relation between parents and children! When they were small the parents doted on them, passed through agonies of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There is no human love like a mother's love. There is no human tenderness like a mother's tenderness…In all ages everywhere, the… — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
We can work together across countries and cultures like never before through the Internet and social media. Everyone can make a difference,… — Shakira Copy Share Image
I looked at No Child Left Behind after it was enacted and saw what happened and saw the expansion of the federal… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
Girls' hearts flourish in homes where they are seen and invited to become ever more themselves. Parents who enjoy their daughters are… — Stasi Eldredge Copy Share Image
The kids that are different and out there and expressive and are bold with those choices, those are the people that grow… — Adam Lambert Copy Share Image
“Barry, let me give you a history lesson, Ladybird Hope-style. When the Vietnamese got kids hooked on drugs and we had to… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I don't think anything ever "needs" to happen. I don't think it's more positive to have a Twitter account, a Tumblr, and… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“...meanwhile, throughout this orchestrated space, harmonious hundreds of people were milling, window shopping, pushing strollers, and holding soda cans in round keep-'… — Evan Dara Copy Share Image
I remember being young and people passing me things under the bathroom to sign, like under the stall. Like adults. We were… — Jodi Sweetin Copy Share Image
Homeless shelters, child hunger, and child suffering have become normalized in the richest nation on earth. It's time to reset our moral… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Brian really kicked back on his own when Amanda was a baby. We had a long talk about it, and he was… — Erika Slezak Copy Share Image
Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading. Stop them reading what they enjoy or give them worthy-but-dull books that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I believe that part of what propels science is the thirst for wonder. It's a very powerful emotion. All children feel it.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If I can keep myself worthy here, if I can be true to gospel commandments, if I can keep covenants that I… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
“She caught her father one day at breakfast, between ministers with tactical problems and councillors with strategic ones. His face lit up… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
And there, row upon row, with the soft gleam of flowers opened at morning, with the light of this June sun glowing… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the earth, we must believe that… — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Copy Share Image
Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
That surely must be a concern to anyone who decides this drug must be given to stop transmissions, again from mother to… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
I can't blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I've spent watching lost balloons disappear into… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
My colleagues and I are of that generation of young men who went through the Second World War and the Japanese Occupation… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
The shift from the perception of the child as innocent to the perception of the child as competent has greatly increased the… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
If you see the kids now they have attitude and a strong character. They play one or two games and demand they… — Ryan Babel Copy Share Image
The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I'm certainly not suggesting legalization of polyamory. But it's also unfairly judgmental of you to compare such relationships to the criminal acts… — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
As a child, I walked with my friends to Rosa Parks Elementary and then to Ben Franklin Middle School. I rode Muni… — London Breed Copy Share Image
Certainly it may, under present imperfect conditions, often be a duty not to destroy the outward form of marriage for the sake… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Turning away women and children in grave danger; warehousing children in cages; deporting people whom we promised to protect - these actions… — Sharice Davids Copy Share Image
Our goal here in New York is to ensure that every child who graduates high school is ready to start a career… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
