I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.
Children, they're the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world -any world. The very best of all.
Warnings about children being overscheduled, racing from one enriching activity to the next, first surfaced in the early 20th century.
Children are not only innocent and curious but also optimistic and joyful and essentially happy. They are, in short, everything adults wish they could be.
At this stage of my life, I've finally come to realize I've learned more from my children than they ever learned from me.
I think that discipline is so much of an important part of being a parent. Because it's very, very important to teach your children to take responsibility for their actions.
I did play Ramses II once, who lived to be 91 and had 120 children, but he died 4,000 years ago.
We all must educate children at the youngest ages that private parts are private, 'no' means no, and there is only one code of honor for everyone.
The world is not ideal, and the only weapon we can give our children is information. Information which is not pretty, but honest.
That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.
Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.
I'm taking care of the children, doing a bit of cooking and trying to do a bit of DIY around the house. But that's not going too well.
After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.
Disasters like Oklahoma City and 9/11 were time-limited. The children who were affected psychologically could go to a place of normalcy.
When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school.
The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them.
I never aspired to be Speaker simply so I could say, 'I am the Speaker of the House of Commons,' and tell my children that.
I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school.
Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.
There are genuine concerns about the status of children to be sent to Malaysia and also there are genuine concerns about the human rights record in Malaysia.
On cheap tippers:"Don't take it personally; they were deprived somehow as children. On low-fat entrees: "They sell well enough, but nobody's too happy after the meal.