While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other's room and play checkers and have pillow fights.
The books you read in childhood shape the person you become.
Having happy kids is far more important than anything they'll ever accomplish. Without happiness success and contentment is always hard to reach.
I know what dissipate means, Arty. I'm not three, for heaven's sake.
Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war,...
I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.
I was a mother who worked ridiculously hard to keep catastrophe at bay. I didn't allow my kids to eat hamburgers for fear of E. coli. I didn't allow them to play with rope, string, balloons - anything...
. . Mrs. Lambchop sighed and shook her head. You're at the office all day, having fun, she said. You don't realize what I go through with the boys. They're very difficult.Kids are like that, Mr. Lambc...
Before reaching Grassy Butte, though, Dad spied a farmhouse with two pumps in the drive and a red-and-white sign out front saying DALE'S OIL COMPANY. Another sign said CLOSED, but a light was on in th...
Converstations with a mother of five are education in patience.
Daddy, said the toddler, now seething with righteous indignation, you are a poo-poo head!Feigning outrage, JFK lowered his voice. John, he said, no one calls the President of the United States a poo-p...
He understood it when other kids were mean to him. It didn't bother him. He simply hated them. As long as he hated them, it didn't matter what they thought of him.
I look at the helpless bundle in the crib and she looks up at me and I wonder what I would notdo to protect her. I would lay down my life in a second. And truth be told, if push came to shove, I would...
My new apartment might be a place where there are lots of children. They might gather on my porch to play, and when I step out for groceries, they will ask me, Hi, do you have any kids? and then, Why...
One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that the old joys can re emerge fresh and new and in a completely different form...
Time does not really exist for mothers, with regard to their children. It does not matter greatly how old the child is-in the blink of an eye, a mother can see the child again as they were when they w...
To the champ, everything is serious business. I'm hoping that he'll live long enough to learn that in this world that is a very dangerous attitude.
Here's to the kids who are different,The kids who don't always get A's,The kids who have ears twice the size of their peers,And noses that go on for days...Here's to the kids who are different,The kid...
I have taught some master classes and things at my alma mater and sometimes at my kids' school. I will go in and talk to the theater students. I wouldn't really call myself a teacher.
Kids shouting and skidding in the playground with no idea what future Hells awaited them: boring jobs and ruinous mortgages and bad marriages and hair loss and hip replacements and lonely cups of coff...
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