I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.
The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.
Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.
Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.
Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.
Promoting education is an effort that is close to my heart. Illiteracy contributes to poverty; encouraging children to pick up a book is fundamental.
We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.
Entire families are attending 'Son of God' together and sharing it with their own kids. Parents are using the film as a conversation starter to help bring the story of Jesus to life for their children.
The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not discerning about whether it looks great or it's a great story or anything.
I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for.
In the last year my wife has noticed me struggling to get downstairs on a Sunday morning. I've two young children and football has been so good to me over the years I don't want to spoil it.
After a week of back and forth, and forth and back over firearms, it's good to see a consensus developing on this common-sense amendment to keep handguns away from children.
I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington.
Life is simply too short to think about everything you put in your mouth, and it's not good for children to see you picking over bits of salad.
Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up.
Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.
We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.
Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.
