When parents tell their children not to congregate on corners, especially in groups, out of fear for them encountering the police, what… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
It's like they say in the Internet world — if you're doing the same thing today you were doing six months ago,… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
One of the worst things about being a parent is knowing you can't protect your child from everything. It's life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the… — Eric Braeden Copy Share Image
My reading as a child was lazy and cowardly, and it is yet. I was afraid of encountering, in a book, something… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I think that parents grow up with an idea of what they want their kids to be like - and then their… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
When I was a child, a lot of my time was spent in Scotland because my mother's Scottish, and we used to… — Jennifer Saunders Copy Share Image
“What to us looks like independence is really just dependence transferred. We are in such a hurry for our children to be… — Gordon Neufeld Copy Share Image
There are great parents of small children - they keep their little hair in bows - but those parents are not always… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
As a child, when I lost things such as my precious pocketknife, I learned that if I prayed hard enough, I could… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“They say kids are like sponges because they observe everything. I guess that makes teens and adults like mops because they're just… — David A. Santos Copy Share Image
Mum , You may be treated like the maid , you may be treated like the gardner , you may be treated… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Only a great genius like the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell can be mother, wife and novelist without solitude. I couldn't write until… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
“If raising healthy children involves telling the truth about the family narrative, that was something I could do. It would take some… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I was the youngest child. I got to be myself and ask stupid questions because I was the youngest. It is so… — May-Britt Moser Copy Share Image
Solicitous care for living things affords satisfaction to one of the most lively instincts of the child's mind. Nothing is better calculated… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Parents want their kids’ approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents’ approval. — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Now, we've made the revolutionary discovery that children have two parents. A decade ago even the kindly Dr. Spock held mothers solely… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I believe that once people really grasp what is at stake for their health and their lives, and for the health and… — Eric Chivian Copy Share Image
Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning...They have to play with what they know to be true in… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I… — Troy Polamalu Copy Share Image
Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Nature introduces children to the idea—to the knowing—that they are not alone in this world, and that realities and dimensions exist alongside… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
“Let the children play, let the children be children! And let us wish the same thing for the adults, let them also… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
One of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don't always ask. — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
Children were pack animals; let any one of them act different from the group, and the rest would bring him down. — Nalo Hopkinson Copy Share Image
There is absolutely no doubt about it, and I may not be the one that does it, but the cloned child is… — Panayiotis Zavos Copy Share Image
Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule. — John Irving Copy Share Image
Childhood, a stage of Life in Which u have nothing to do, only busy in collecting memories for your reaming life: — Kashif Zaman Copy Share Image
We do not believe in the educative power of words and commands alone, but seek cautiously, and almost without the child's knowing… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“But we left camp after a while and we was driving in a real spooky place cause all the roads up near… — Timothy Victor Richardson Copy Share Image
“What we rarely see receive is a picture of adulthood that represents it as the ideal it should be. (...) What better… — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
Childhood is analogous to language learning. It has a biological basis but cannot be realized unless a social environment triggers and nurtures… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Finally Anna picked up the letters again, searched through them, fastened her eyes on Katri, and said, "This is wrong! Here you're… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct. Kindness, gentleness, long suffering, forbearance, patience, sympathy, a willingness to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
