Having children changes you forever, as a writer and as a human being. I hope it's for the better on both counts, but I guess we'll see.
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.
I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
All parents all over the world want their children to lead a better life than themselves, but they need to believe that change is possible.
I'm always in favor of more glamour. I embarrass my children, I think. I am the lady in feathers in the car pool line.
Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.
I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.
I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.
With my support, the House of Representatives recently voted to permanently repeal the death tax so that family farms and businesses can be passed down to children and grandchildren.
My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them.
'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
I can't sing but I can understand wanting to keep a balance, trying to pursue dreams, while creating a stable environment for my children.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
A girl child who is even a little bit educated is more conscious of family planning, health care and, in turn, her children's own education.
Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.
No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work.
Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.
