I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in.
The world is full of magical places, and the library has always been one of them for me. A library can be that special place for our children.
My children not only inspired me to reconsider what kind of eating animal I would be, but also shamed me into reconsideration.
Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.
Those who devote their lives to serving our country, children, and neighborhoods are giving back. They have answered the call to serve.
Shouldn't we also ask ourselves what the consequences are of scrambling to provide the "most" of everything to our children in a world of fast dwindling resources?
Even the most powerful enemies who threaten or oppress God’s children will one day fall.
What is most important and valuable about the home as a base for children's growth into the world is not that it is a better school than the schools, but that it isn't a school at all.
I was 36 when I got married. I was so focused on, 'You wanted a husband, and you wanted a house, and you wanted children.' I've had all those things now.
I don't know if anything I write will endure, but I do try to write it as a narrative that will not only challenge but also entice the reader into the lives of children.
Our children may learn about the heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves the architects of the future.
Until men learn to celebrate and operate on the feminine aspect of themselves and stop the oppression of women, children, the environment, other species, we don't have a world to live in. It's not a world that anyone chooses to live in.
For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli.
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many years of our married life that that was our life. We knew nothing else.
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.
From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young breathing time to master the things they will need to know in order to survive as adults.
I used to be a shopper before I had children. I'd go to Bergdorf and Barneys all the time. But now my weekends are spent differently. I go to the skating rink or the park, not the stores.
I know that when I was a children's librarian, that was about 1940, boys particularly asked where were the books about kids like us, and there weren't any at that time.
Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.
