Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children.
I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do.
People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way or another.
One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive.
My ex-husband is very involved in raising our beautiful children. We're very lucky because we both grew up in working families in middle America. We're on the same page that way.
I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in from some part of the world where ducks are crossing the street.
For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.
Neuroscience is now a very important research area in biology. We are now understanding a lot more about brains in babies, as well as children and adults.
I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.
I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.
As a father of two children, I am used to seeing kids in the midst of a five-alarm meltdown over the choice of DVD or the necessity of broccoli.
I want to live as private a life as I can because of our children.
I like throwing snowballs at small children.
Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.
I cannot tell you what it means when children recognize. This is about the third generation for me. And when kids that small recognize me, it really pleases me, very gratifying.
High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.
Yes, it is worse than thrown away, because every fair minded man must admit that the expenditure of this sum of money in the county for intoxicating liquor creates lawlessness, makes criminals, wrecks homes and brings trouble to innocent women and children.
I have always been drawn to child-related causes. I find that people listen to me more when I advocate for children now that I have my own.
Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.
When I wasn't as attractive as I am now, I suffered at the hands of cruel children and their taunts until I realised that confidence and a bit of aesthetic care can overcome that.
Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy.
DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress.
Children are so precious.
President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education.
The American people are tired of being told. They're tired of being told that this is as good as it gets. They're tired of hearing politicians in both parties tell us that we'll get to that tomorrow while we pile a mountain range of debt on our children and our grandchildren.
My children have become popular, and they show a tremendous love for the public. They're professionals.
Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
It's not something that's at the forefront of my mind, but I think I'd regret it if I didn't have children.
Sometimes when you have children they're the opposites of you.
We've got the children so we have to deal with each other because we have to deal with children's problems, you know, and our own problems. But some days it's fine, and then some days we just are at each other's throat.
I decided that it's either, you know, if I want to have children, have a family and - and live a long life, I've got to make some real, real serious changes.
The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.
