Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.
The most rewarding aspect of parenting is seeing my children be authentic. The most rewarding thing for me is to see them do anything that they're proud of.
We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.
Before, I used to ask permission to my parents to leave the house. Now it's - I ask permission to my children to leave the house. They own the house.
As children, my siblings and I were actively discouraged from acting. I have no memories of going on set with my parents - aside from 'Gulliver's Travels.'
At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.
I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
Like the 'test tube babies' born of in vitro fertilization, cloned children need not be identifiable, much less freaks or outcasts.
A lot of childhood effort, worry, and whispering goes into cracking the codes of adult life. Children have to be accomplished spies.
I think that in the Christian community, we're lacking a lot of things, and I don't know that it's just children's role models.
I had never really pictured myself working in children's ministries. I always figured I would be more comfortable with maybe teens or adult ministries.
Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.
The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children; and here was one who was worshipping a stone!
Corporate partners help UNICEF fund our programmes for children, advocate with us on their behalf, or facilitate our work through logistical, technical, research or supply support.
I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far.
I think it's a mother's dream come true to see it work out that way. Not just the mother, but certainly parents, to know that their children have a very solid moral foundation and religious foundation.
When you have young children, it is hard to see live performances. Unless I am in it. I do manage to see my husband Rupert Goold's work, of course.
The Trevor Romain Foundation is a project that I am most proud to be a part of. They work with the USO and help provide support and comfort to military children and their families.
