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“Anyone want to help me start PAPA, Parents for Alternatives to Punishment Association? (There is already a group in England called ‘EPPOCH’… — Kelly Bryson Copy Share Image
“some children become more anxious as the operation continues. One suggests that if the Furby dies, it might haunt them. It is… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“This was it. He would kill her. She knew it, and she had so much to say. She wanted to tell Sky… — Devona Serenity Copy Share Image
“There is darkness on the water. There is darkness on the land. There is darkness all around us, but I will hold… — Ann Burg Copy Share Image
When the child has reached manhood he is thoroughly saturated with the belief that he is chosen by the Lord himself to… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I have a daughter, Catherine, aged 30. I have a 9-year-old son, Nathaniel, a 7-year-old son, Ridley, and a 6-year-old daughter, Truma.… — Clyde Edgerton Copy Share Image
i love playing and chatting with children...feeding and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“Recently I interviewed a psychopath. This is always a humbling experience because it teaches over and over how much of human motivation… — Anna Salter Copy Share Image
To be a good mother, a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who are taught… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
But, in the end, the books that surround me are the books that made me, through my reading (and misreading) of them;… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
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In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Landmines distinguish themselves because once they have been sown, once the soldier walks away from the weapon, the landmine cannot tell the… — Jody Williams Copy Share Image
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In its jolly mission to expose the dark underbelly of the children’s book world, Wild Things! turns up stories I’ve been hearing… — Paul O. Zelinsky Copy Share Image
You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
My methods are all because of my experiences as a nanny. Parents have asked, 'How do you have an understanding of this… — Jo Frost Copy Share Image
For little boys are rancorous When robbed of any myth, And spiteful and cantankerous To all their kin and kith. But little… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
In the States, the HIV transmission from mother to child is almost completely preventable - the only mothers who really do transmit… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
“And yet there’s nothing to understand. The problem is that children believe what adults say and, once they’re adults themselves, they exact… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“We are not slaves but children of our Father, free to do good, free to sin. So when in anguish over any… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
Intelligence may be taken as a necessary, but not sufficient, cause of moral advance. All morally advanced children are bright, but not… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
My daughter was five when I was writing 'Minari,' very much close to the age of David. And I was about to… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
Give peace a chance, yes, but why not get serious and give it a place in the curriculum: peace courses in every… — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
When I'm doing something, it's something that I had a perspective on in my childhood, or now, but it may be different.… — Jon M. Chu Copy Share Image
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Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
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“As she spoke, I wanted to cry, because sometimes it's just so damn hard to be a mother. We have to wait… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
When a dad admits he is wrong or asks for help, he allows the child to see him- or herself as adequate… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“There are times when you don't belong and you think you're going to kill yourself. Once I went to a hotel. Later… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Scientists are the easiest to fool. ... They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know… — James P. Hogan Copy Share Image
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