Having a child isn't a deal you strike with life. As I said: a child is a gift. And what remains after a child is gone is the memory of the years it was allowed to live. Not its death
In raising my children, I have lost my mind but found my soul.
(pl. ) of Child
(n.) pl. of Child.
All of us were once children, but only some of us remember that
Cheeky. Carry them for nine months, feed them, clothe them, and what do I get? Impertinence.
As one attains the age of 18 having fully acquired the basic education, one becomes responsible for whatever decision he makes, whatever opinion he chooses to accept and whatever style of life he choo...
We are the children of the earth and removed from her our spirit withers.
To have my life accepted as just another ordinary life, to have it viewed as common and regular, was a singular moment.
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
Is that what love is all about? Needing them to come back to you when they're away? To come home and keep you safe?
Children respect teachers today not for their knowledge but for the marks they give. Teachers respect children today not for the intelligence they have but for the threat they pose. That is the state...
Teach the child how to think and not what to think by equipping him with the weapons of Knowledge and Discernment.
We can best help children learn, not by deciding what we think they should learn and thinking of ingenious ways to teach it to them, but by making the world, as far as we can, accessible to them, payi...
A child whose life is full of the threat and fear of punishment is locked into babyhood. There is no way for him to grow up, to learn to take responsibility for his life and acts. Most important of al...
Give your children big truths they will grow into rather than light explanations they will grow out of.
What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla in the room is that our children with autism today wi...
I've been advised not to have any more children for medical reasons, so that's it - the shop has closed, even though I would have loved a daughter.
Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.
Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.