“ The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love. Bruce D. Perry
“ Small children are capable of great love. Love that overwhelms. Love that changes small worlds completely. Dangerous feelings that blot out everything. Missy Anne
“ My demons creep like a pedo in a park full of kids. Each one reminding me of the consequences, what I didn’t do, or did. Ken Dereste Dorcely
“ It’s said that sport is the civilised society’s substitute for war, and also that the games we play as children are designed to prepare us for the realities of adult life. Certainly it’s true that my… Danielle Wood
“ So that it isn't upsetting to anybody. It's something we've always known about fairy tales – they talk about incest, the Oedipus complex, about psychotic mothers, like those of Snow White and Hansel a… Maurice Sendak
“ What do you do,' said Jean, 'with, ah, "ungifted" children when you have them?''Cherish them and raise them, you imbecile. Most of them end up working for us, in Karthain and elsewhere. What did you t… Scott Lynch
“ The toddler started making this whine/moan noise while pawing at Tabitha. I know as a woman I'm supposed to have this innate love of babies, but the truth is, they kind of remind me of zombies. They s… Cindi Madsen
“ If shadows were caused by the interplay between light and Life, a child's was still forming. An adult's was inextricably bound to his body, but a child had a tenuous relationship to his own permanence… Anne Ursu
“ Say what you will, dear sister, we do what we do for the promise of our youth. Yet it is always they who scar beneath the points of daggers. Chris Galford
“ Our wives, our families, and our churches need godly men who have discernment--discernment to deal with life and life-issues on a spiritual level. Jim George
“ I had uncovered a widely held but overlooked attachment: our attachment to the view that every problem must have a solution. We delude ourselves that we can think our way out of a problem or we see it… Sarah Napthali
“ Are you imperfect, romantically irrational, ridiculously fearless, and utterly illogical? You're my ideal reader, friend, partner. I'm your fan. Brook Tesla
“ Memory loss is the key to human reproduction. If you remembered what new parenthood was actually like you wouldn’t go around lying to people about how wonderful it is, and you certainly wouldn’t ever… Michael Lewis
“ Even if Mary gives birth to a child who is not her husband's, if she has a shining pride, they become a holy mother and child. Osamu Dazai
“ Magrat liked to think she was good with children, and worried that she wasn’t. She didn’t like them very much, and worried about this too. Nanny Ogg seemed to be effortlessly good with children by alt… Terry Pratchett
“ It's been said that parents should give their children roots and wings. That was a perfect description of my parents. Even in a wheelchair, my father was a dreamer with his head in the clouds and my m… Richard Paul Evans
“ Why is it that children, taught the names of the months and the fact that there are twelve of them, don't ask why the ninth is called the seventh (September), the tenth called the eight (October), the… John Cage
“ Secure attachment has been linked to a child's ability to successfully recover and prove resilient in the presence of a traumatic event. Asa Don Brown
“ If the bible be true, God commanded his chosen people to destroy men simply for the crime of defending their native land. They were not allowed to spare trembling and white-haired age, nor dimpled bab… Robert G. Ingersoll
