“ The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears. Phil McGraw
“ All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning. Henry David Thoreau
“ We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us. Joseph Barber Lightfoot
“ We still counted happiness and health and love and luck and beautiful children as ordinary blessings. Joan Didion
“ It was a surprise, and a delight, to see children devour books. Without ever knowing it, they were receiving an education. Pat Frank
“ Fracking has been used for more than 60 years to successfully drill over a million oil and gas wells in the U.S. Nonetheless, the prevailing mythology on the radical left is that the technology is 'po… Bob Beauprez
“ The intuitive connection children feel with animals can be a tremendous source of joy. The unconditional love received from pets, and the lack of artifice in the relationship, contrast sharply with th… Frans de Waal
“ Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human… Ken Robinson
“ I believe that the essence of marriage is choosing someone who loves you for who you are, embraces everything about you, and building a life with that person. Whether that life is with children or wit… Aisha Tyler
“ Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun. Kent Nerburn
“ I have learned that raising children is the single most difficult thing in the world to do. It takes hard work, love, luck, and a lot of energy, and it is the most rewarding experience that you can ev… Janet Reno
“ When it comes to referring to Dickens's life, performing plays with your nine children for friends and family during Christmas is Dickensian. Matthew Pearl
“ Everyone knows that at the age of 11-12, children have a marked impulse to form themselves into groups and that the respect paid to the rules and regulations of their play constitutes an important fea… Jean Piaget
“ And children are still the way you were ...as a child, sad and happy in just the same way and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children, and the grown… Rainer Maria Rilke
“ Fantasy isn't about escape; it's a survival mechanism. It's a way to deal with things that are so much bigger than you are. So I think fantasy is special, something to be cherished and protected becau… The Martian Child David Gerrold
