“You're not my real parents, every child has thought. I'm not your real child. But with orphans, it's true. What freedom, to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“We should measure our children not by the mountains they conquer but by their efforts to climb. Oh - and let them… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays;… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
“Don't put your child at risk. Limit unsupervised one-on-one time between your child & another adult or another child.” — Carolyn Byers Ruch Copy Share Image
We, as adults, are the gatekeepers, and we have to check our own fears at the door because we want our children… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Often the only thing a child can remember about an adult in later years, when he or she is grown, is whether… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
As a child I wanted to be a ballerina, ice-cream van owner, wife of George Michael, a nun, and a music conductor. — Erin O'Connor Copy Share Image
There is one thing you and I as parents cannot do, not do we want to do if we really think about… — Barbara Coloroso Copy Share Image
For many observers, a child who has known nothing but war, a child for whom the Kalashnikov is the only way to… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
“Either way, it's important that we all remember to play. Watching and being inspired by our uninhabited little ones can lead us… — Amanda Blake Soule Copy Share Image
Reading to children at night, responding to their smiles with a smile, returning their vocalizations with one of your own, touching them,… — T. Berry Brazelton Copy Share Image
“Katherine and the children have made paper boats and are floating them on the moat to see which one stays up the… — Elizabeth Fremantle Copy Share Image
With grown children, we can look back at both our mistakes and what we did well in our parenting, having conversations with… — Wendy Lustbader Copy Share Image
“a good deal of unkindness and selfishness on the part of parents towards children is not generally followed by ill consequences to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
My parents broke up when I was six. Before, I was a very active, naughty child, but after my father left me,… — Tony Leung Chiu-Wai Copy Share Image
Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Paul Ryan hasn't lacked for a job since he left college as the golden child of Wisconsin Republican politics, riding his family… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
“This is my life's work. It is a user's manual to the human being, a parenting book ... and how to be… — Faye Snyder Copy Share Image
Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes… — Brene Brown Copy Share Image
But if for the physical life it is necessary to have the child exposed to the vivifying forces of nature, it is… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We cannot give our children what we don't have. Where we are on our journey of living and loving with our whole… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
Inspiring children through play and creativity is crucial to early development, and no company has done more in that space over many… — Margo Georgiadis Copy Share Image
You spend years wishing your parents would get off your back , only to realize that they are the only ones who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's so hard [to be parent] and no matter how old you get and how experienced you get you're always scared you're… — Pat Benatar Copy Share Image
The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
There is a difference between being a bad child and being a wild child. Anybody can be wild, but to be bad… — Nir Hod Copy Share Image
A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
All parents all over the world want their children to lead a better life than themselves, but they need to believe that… — Shukla Bose Copy Share Image
How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Tell the truth. Say what is happening. Allow what is, and allow it to be known. Bring your children up in a… — Vimala McClure Copy Share Image
It's a different story because guess what, the kid is only 28 years old, 28. He's not his dad, not his grandpa.… — Dennis Rodman Copy Share Image
It has been said that the hardest job in the world is raising a child, but the people who says this have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
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