Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
Most adults I know start their Internet session at Google, and most kids I know start their Internet session at either Facebook or MySpace.
Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.
Children are not only innocent and curious but also optimistic and joyful and essentially happy. They are, in short, everything adults wish they could be.
It is unlikely that changes in telomeres are influencing the lifespan of the worm. That is because telomeres only shorten when cells divide. Most of the cells of the worm stop dividing when the worm becomes an adult.
Turning 16 is kind of scary because when you're 16, you go from being a kid and then you can drive and are more of a young adult in a way.
If ever there was a holiday that deserves to be commercialized, it's Halloween. We haven't taken it away from kids. We've just expanded it so that the kid in adults can enjoy it, too.
Don't put your child at risk. Limit unsupervised one-on-one time between your child & another adult or another child.
If women and men want to be treated as adults they must begin to act without the childish selfishness that pollutes our world.
I'm a bit more of a suspense reader on the adult side, but my favorites were the ones I grew up reading.
Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.
It's weird: The leader of the Conservative Party in England is two years younger than me, and I still don't really feel like a responsible adult.
If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.
It’s time for the Boy Scouts to open its membership to LGBT adults once and for all. Only then can they claim to have anything to teach our children.
Adult stem cells are also problematic, as they are difficult to identify, purify and grow, and simply may not exist for certain diseased tissues that need to be replaced.
Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece.
We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.
The whole 'R' rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever go to the cinema with their parents.
But these days, I get a lot more attention and airplay from the Adult Contemporary and country radio stations, and I feel comfortable saying I'm a part of that.
I know I'm writing better now than I ever did for adults because I'm writing for an audience who know that they don't know everything.
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
