Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our children's lives.
These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.
My mother is a realist, and she's had biological and adoptive children, and she said it's no different: No matter what, they're putting a stranger into your arms. You don't know them yet.
We are battling fanatics who kidnap and behead civilians and shoot fleeing children in the back. There can be no dialogue with such people, and the American people understand this.
I think that usually the risk in trying to write children in fiction is the tendency to make them too cute or something.
The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.
My father was frightened of his mother; I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.
I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children, and I didn't lose weight to find those things.
Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.
America, ever the narcissistic mother, prefers baby bumps to children and expectant mothers to full-fledged bum-and-nose-wiping ones.
In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.
I simply cannot see how denying chemotherapy treatment for Palestinian children increases Israel's security or advances U.S. national interests.
Bilingualism opens doors and provides opportunity to our children so they can shine and become successful in a labor market that is increasingly competitive and globalized.
I definitely want children. That's important to me, so I just want to make sure that I'm completely prepared for it when that day comes.
We're so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we're inadvertently excusing them from growing up.
I try to keep a balance. I actually believe that children want normal parents, they don't want celebrities or important parents or anything different from all the other parents.
The proper care and rearing of a child is integral to their development. It breaks my heart to know that some children's futures are being destroyed within their own homes.
Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. Children, despite all their complexity, do not.
The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.
I don't really care what others think of me. You're not going to please everybody. I care what I think and what my children and my husband thinks.
Don't whine to your spouse about your daily troubles. He's had a harder day providing for you and your children. This is what you're aspiring to?
