Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.
If your dreams are to hard to achieve, just achieve
It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.
That's why teenagers fascinate me - they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.
I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children.
I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children.
Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
Children worked in the mills: "I will always believe that children are designed for green meadows and play, not for factories and cotton dust.
It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.
In my experience, adults rarely bother reading the reviews of children's books and almost never read the books themselves - particularly if they don't have children.
Save the Children is an awesome charity that has helped more than 125 million children around the world, providing everything from school books to food to blankets and shelter.
When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party line in case the children repeated it and endangered the whole family.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children.
I was born Gaynor Hopkins, one of seven children. My mum, Elsie, and dad, Glyndwr, always said they had seven children, although my sister Paulene was stillborn.
I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.
I believe education should be a right for every child, but tragically in many parts of world it is a privilege for certain children whose parents have money. There are 72 million children in the world who don't go to school and many of them are in Af...
I read a lot of books to my children, and they all seem really good. I think people have gotten really good at children's books.
Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
