All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.
I'm not really interested in writing or reading about people who are nice and easy. I like the problem children.
You always hear people say that having kids changes everything, but you can't fully realize it until you have children yourself.
One in seven Americans, including more than 8 million children, does not have even basic healthcare coverage.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
What you don't think about when you're planning for children is when you're going to teach them how not to be killed
I attended Professional Children's School in Manhattan because my ballet and modern dance schedules were intensive and had started to interfere with regular school hours.
Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.
I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.
I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.
Margaret Atwood was the author who took me out of children's literature and guided me towards adult literature.
My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.
One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
Parenting is a partnership. Loving each other has a big impact on your children.
Schools connect children to their communities. Jobs connect adults to their societies. Persons with autism deserve to walk the same path.
Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.
It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.
