We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.
The idea of being able to serve as an example, based upon how to process, how to think, how to realize our own dreams, we can pass that down to our children.
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.
My big chip is that I never had an education. I wanted my children to get one so they didn't fall into the same trap as me.
When parents are confident that their children will live, they have fewer of them. They invest more in each child's food, health and education.
My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.
For six and a half years, I had responsibility for leading the Labour party policy on education and delivering on our promise of improved opportunities for all our children.
Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany.
Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have.
President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education.
An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.
Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.
The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.
I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.
The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.
I went to a grim Victorian school with classes of 40 or 50 children. It was a very rigid and unimaginative education, but it did teach us the three Rs.
Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, two Irish immigrants who lived with their five children on the city's West Side.
Inspector Rebus is a great character, so when the opportunity came up to revive the role for 'BBC Children in Need,' and really have a bit of fun with it, I was happy to take part.
Community colleges are great bargains. They avoid the fancy amenities four-year liberal arts colleges need in order to lure the children of the middle class.
