When I'm not working, my time is really about my children.
Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.
Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss how they feel about themselves.
I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona. With my children, I'm just 'Mom.' At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.
There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.
You're going to figure it out, as you go. I think that's how people feel about having children, as well. You're not going to learn how to do it until you do it.
Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.
Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy.
I've got four lovely children, ten lovely grandchildren, and I left parliament to devote more time to politics, and I think that what is really going on in Britain is a growing sense of alienation. People don't feel anyone listens to them.
If you want to conduct terror against Israelis, which is unacceptable, send fighters to do it. Don't send your women and children.
For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children.
God bless all the little children in the world.
The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many respects, to turn their children over to the public education system and wrest control from them and block them out of participation of that. That has to change or education will not improve in this country.
You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks.
Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.
I find being a mother is a huge advantage. Of course, I'm probably a little more tired than I might be if I didn't have children, but I think they provide me the balance that I need to keep my mind off of lifting.
I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish living together. If they're raising children who believe they're honored and loved, that's all that's important.
One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.
Appallingly, I hadn't thought about it one jot. I never daydreamed as a little girl of getting married and having children. I was as surprised to discover I was getting married as I was to discover I was up the duff.
Whether they hail from different cultures, countries or faiths, children are children.
At one point in my career, while still hosting 'The Arsenio Hall Show,' I was told by my doctor that it might not be physically possible for me to have children.
PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
We go to college, live together or marry, and have kids - often with little more thought to the daily routines of raising children than our grandparents gave them, when women by and large stayed at home.
Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.
Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
If one can judge from the letters that I receive, it would seem that there are many thousands of children who would like me to speak or to read to them.
A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.
