If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.
Children and cats are the best machines of fun!
(pl. ) of Child
(n.) pl. of Child.
The minds of small children are more interested in clockwork trains, jumping in puddles and other important childhood endeavours.
Children have imagination enough to grasp any idea which you present to them with honesty and without patronage.
A small child being dragged to bed peered curiously at me as it passed, then waved. We waved back, not being entirely sure how else to respond to small creatures like that.
A child may be "spoiled" by a lack of training or by inappropriate love that gives or trains incorrectly.
Every happy memory created for a child is another treasure of a lifetime.
Our children are watching us live, and what we ARE shouts louder than anything we can say.
I just want my kids to love who they are, have happy lives and find something they want to do and make peace with that. Your job as a parent is to give your kids not only the instincts and talents to...
Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.
Creativity becomes more visible when adults try to be more attentive to the cognitive processes of children than to the results they achieve in various fields of doing and understanding.
We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.
Every child ought to know the light of knowledge.
My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.
I wrote "David" because it seemed to me that children, who can love a book more passionately than any grown person, got such a lot of harmless entertainment and not enough real, valuable literature.
I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house they want places to play.
There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.
Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.
Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they...