I attended Professional Children's School in Manhattan because my ballet and modern dance schedules were intensive and had started to interfere with regular school hours.
I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.
I always wanted children late; I had my first daughter at 39 and the second at 45.
I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.
What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.
My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.
Especially since having children, a lot of the time if you ask me, 'Have you read that book?' the answer would be 'not personally.'
I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.
When I see a fighter gets into the ring, I not only see the fighter, but I see his wife and children. I care about what happens to them. I care about what happens to that fighter after he gets out of the ring.
Elderly parents tend to think their relationship with their middle-aged children is smoother than the children do. Adult grandchildren, who have little stake in pulling away from their grandparents, tend to describe that relationship as less rose-colored than do Gram and Gramps.
I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.
A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life.
I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead.
If you're a young couple when you start out and are both working, trying to raise children, that is tough.
If there were some recipe that would make all of our children really sane and civic-minded and hugely intelligent, I think we'd probably all do it. But I don't know that there is a recipe for creating that.
For most of us, no matter how slim, middle-aged spread really does set in, and your waist thickens, irrespective of whether you've had children or if you exercise regularly.
Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.
People have come to me for my opinion since 'October Baby.' But, hey, look, I'm an actor who is very fortunate to be in a movie that's making wonderful noise, and hopefully helping parents and children to be a little closer. Leave me alone. I'm not talking about politics. I'm just trying to have a conversation with my own kids.
The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.
I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
Real self-esteem has to be earned. I also believe in virtuous circles, like, nothing is fun until you are good at it. It is great if you can instill in children the ability to not give up, to have a work ethic.
My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now.
Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.
Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself.
I have experienced within my own lifetime the attack of my winter camp and the killing of the women and children. It left me even angrier than I was - and I was never too calm to begin with.
Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.
I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.
I want children to be glued to interactive books that encourage singing and dancing. I feel when kids work together it brings about a different energy.
Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.
With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath.
An increasing number of Canadians must juggle the demands of work with the need to care for children, or for family members who are ill or too frail to care for themselves. Our programs have simply not kept pace with these societal changes.
Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!
It is the children between five and seven who are the word-lovers. It is they who show a predisposition toward such study. Their undeveloped minds can not yet grasp a complete idea with distinctness. They do, however, understand words. And they may be entirely carried away by their ecstatic, their tireless interest in the parts of speech.
I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.
