When I learned how millions of children go to bed hungry, my only response was, 'What can I do to help?'
Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it's a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult.
The dream of the Convention was born from the that children and their needs were not been considered when policies were being made, laws passed or actions undertaken.
You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually.
I've got a bike in the lounge that I watch Coronation Street on. I never had to watch my weight until I had the children, but with the bike, I'm fine.
As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.
I find the fact that more than 750,000 children still die every year around the world because of severe dehydration due to diarrhea unacceptable.
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
A lot of people have said that I've got a voice that speaks to children. I think I've got a natural naivety to me. I'm childish.
That's the news from Lake Woebegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
Several people have told me that one of the most meaningful events they could attend would be something at the White House with their children.
Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.
I was the middle of five children, and we were five very opinionated siblings. That probably pushed me to learn to speak up for myself.
Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.
Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.
Childhood has definitely been invented, hasn't it? I think that's because people had children later, and we appreciate and cherish childhood a lot more.
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.
If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles.
I was never the girl who yearned for children. I pretended to be interested in other people's kids, but that was obviously just an act.
I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.
You better arm yourselves to answer your children's and grandchildren's questions... no matter what the question is... without being judgmental.
