“Children bleed as easy as anyone else, don't they? Why would they be spared? A child is nothing but a future enemy.” — Brian McClellan Copy Share Image
Sometimes I regret waiting so long to have a child, but I don't make the rules. The universe decided it was going… — Constance Marie Copy Share Image
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
It seems that when anything aimed at kids catches on, it causes the collective antennae of the older set to go up. — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child. — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“Children were quick to grasp the subtleties of emotions around them, to see through evasions and quickly identify prevarication.” — Charles Todd Copy Share Image
Fostering is the most worthwhile and selfless act of love you can ever imagine. The children will teach you so much about… — Jen Lilley Copy Share Image
I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
“Both kinds of parenting, finally, are forms of overidentification. The helicopter parent turns the child into an instrument of her will. The… — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Your toddler will be "good" if he feels like doing what you happen to want him to do and does not happen… — Penelope Leach Copy Share Image
“My Webster’s dictionary defines spirited as: lively, creative, keen, eager, full of energy and courage, and having a strong assertive personality. Spirited—it… — Mary Sheedy Kurcinka Copy Share Image
“The goal is for your children to feel as if they can come to you without fear or disappointment, anger, or judgment.… — Melissa Shultz Copy Share Image
“Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Unconditional parental love is the indespensible nutrient for the child's healthy emotional growth. The first task is to create space in the… — Gordon Neufeld Copy Share Image
It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Parenthood is a great equalizer. It doesn't matter how famous you are - once you become a parent, you are just like… — Terri Irwin Copy Share Image
Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean… — Barbara Coloroso Copy Share Image
You think you know how much you can love another person, and then you have a child and you realize you didn't… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
No one can ever prepare a parent for two things: the immeasurable love that comes with having a child; and the sorrow… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
It being a part of Mrs. Pipchin's system not to encourage a child's mind to develop and expand itself like a young… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Our job is to ask questions of children so that children internalize these questions and ask them of themselves and their own… — Lucy Calkins Copy Share Image
We've got the children so we have to deal with each other because we have to deal with children's problems, you know,… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
To be a part of your biggest days - you know, your child being conceived or born, or you walking down the… — Robin Thicke Copy Share Image
We're not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and Michael Jacksons of the world, but rather assisting infertile couples that deserve the… — Panayiotis Zavos Copy Share Image
I've never had much sympathy for orphans, I mean, when I was their age I would have killed to have no parents… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
Good discipline is more than just punishing or laying down the law. It is liking children and letting them see that they… — Stanley Greenspan Copy Share Image
“Oh, if our children actually knew how much we love them, they’d never be able to hit any of these balls, they’d… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
Children who know they are loved, know they have a purpose, and know they have a hope are prepared for anything this… — Tim Kimmel Copy Share Image
My hunch is that if we allow ourselves to give who we really are to the children in our care, we will… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Anyone with a child knows that children learn about the world through binary options: up or down, hot or cold, big or… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
As a parent, you experience the most of everything. The most love, the most fear, the most hurt and the most tired,… — Sarah Shahi Copy Share Image
I didn't realise my upbringing was unusual until my teens. As the child of two actors, I presumed that visiting film sets… — Emilia Fox Copy Share Image
“The children are performing their wickedness. Hot ovens are being prepared. Come. Help us. ...the voice attempted to correct my interpretation. It… — Horton Deakins Copy Share Image
The best time to give advice to your children is while they're still young enough to believe you know what you're talking… — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Parents and kids know they should pass up the fries for an apple and exchange the video game for a game of… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
