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.
There are genuine concerns about the status of children to be sent to Malaysia and also there are genuine concerns about the human rights record in Malaysia.
On cheap tippers:"Don't take it personally; they were deprived somehow as children. On low-fat entrees: "They sell well enough, but nobody's too happy after the meal.
I dish the dirt out and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it?
We have very specific rules about how we go to market with children, and I think they are very responsible.
We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment in which to live.
Don't live vicariously through your kids or try to shape them into who you wanted to be, like the popular kid or an athlete. Children should be given the opportunity to be themselves.
One of the things I loved about my childhood was that I didn't feel like I lost my innocence too young, like some children these days.
It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how it is, but how it's remembered.
All of our competitors around the world, every country is investing more in infrastructure as a percentage of their GDP than we are. And down the road our children and grandchildren will have to compete with that more and more.
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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.
People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.
The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers.
All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
When parents neglect their responsibility to correct and discipline their children society suffers. The results are crimes and harm committed against others.
Paternalism is everywhere in our lives. We have to immunise our children unless we are upset about it. In India, it is the opposite. It is possible to get your kids immunised, but you really have to want to.
If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.
Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.
What's more difficult than knowing there's an effective treatment for your children, but you can't afford to offer it to them because it's not covered by insurance?
Praying for your children is the most powerful way you can care for them.
