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.
At this stage of my life, I've finally come to realize I've learned more from my children than they ever learned from me.
We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.
In Sweden, we've moved away from the notion that mothers have some magical, special bond with children.
I think that discipline is so much of an important part of being a parent. Because it's very, very important to teach your children to take responsibility for their actions.
I did play Ramses II once, who lived to be 91 and had 120 children, but he died 4,000 years ago.
We all must educate children at the youngest ages that private parts are private, 'no' means no, and there is only one code of honor for everyone.
Every day is a new sense of tearing my heart out of my body again when I see other children who have been killed, and I know what their families are going through.
The world is not ideal, and the only weapon we can give our children is information. Information which is not pretty, but honest.
If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.
That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.
Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.
I'm taking care of the children, doing a bit of cooking and trying to do a bit of DIY around the house. But that's not going too well.
After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.
Disasters like Oklahoma City and 9/11 were time-limited. The children who were affected psychologically could go to a place of normalcy.
When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school.
For My people are foolish, They know Me not; They are stupid children And have no understanding. They are shrewd to do evil, But to do good they do not know.
The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them.
The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like.
I never aspired to be Speaker simply so I could say, 'I am the Speaker of the House of Commons,' and tell my children that.
I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school.
