Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.
They are not kidding when they say that mothers are strong women. We need to be strong in more ways than our children will ever know.
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.
Children who use the Internet are much better informed than when I was young. Use this to your advantage.
I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.
Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.
Special Super Bowl Wisdom of the Ages: "Super Bowl Sunday" "Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain-and all the children are insane.-" The Doors
Poor or rich, black or white, quiet or naughty, mentally defective or sharp-witted, thin or fat, all children are great!
The strongest shoulders are not the well-built shoulders of a weight lifter who carries iron dumbbells, but they are of a mother’s weak shoulders which carry three children!
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved.
When I was young, I was clever enough to know that if I got married or had children, I would be eaten.
Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large.
I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you're expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you're not asking for it.
It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
We were still children and residing in the mosque from morning to evening. We were about to turn into monsters.
There were no fear of death in children’s eyes because they had seen hanging, stoning to death and chopping heads in playgrounds and parks.
I grew up in an area of Ireland where there weren't many black or mixed-race children. But I never had any hassle; maybe I've blocked it out, but I don't think so.
I think people should try to teach young children that these qualities - stubbornness and a capacity to listen - might look like they are opposites, but they are not.
People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way or another.
What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stuff that was unthinkable 30 years ago?
