When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on.

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.

We read our children stories starring elephants and monkeys and bears to teach them about nobility, curiosity and courage, to warn them against selfishness and stubbornness.

Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset children from it. A healthy scare is as good as as a healthy laugh. In fact, they're two sides of the same...

Today's new age parenting guarantees you'll hear children screaming, whining, and begging for items and attention in an airplane, store or any other public place.

Some kids are black, or brown - some kids are red, and others white. Kids come in all different colors, shapes and styles - beautiful and bright!

We must have the love that exists among children, for with them love rules without any special purpose.

The literature of America should reflect the children of America.

We all say we want our kids to be happy, only happy, and healthy, but we don't want that. We want them to be like we are, or better than we are. We as humans are very unimaginative in that sense. We...

Just because a child doesn't have both parents raising him or her, doesn't mean that child becomes half the person they were meant to be. One wonderful parent can love enough for two, and love will...

You could get crickets to pop out of a book as a little, little girl, but now you have to relearn it? Well, children can do so many things until they're told they can't.

Can these signs and symbols still speak? Images, memories, stories, and objects all carry the past into the present. As we think about these messages from the past, we might wonder, too, about what...

Children teach us more than our elders because they are a real reflector of our society.

A child is like a ship. One can never be too young to be steered to the right course.

I wondered why so many gardens around the world focused on the healing power of plants rather than their ability to kill… I felt that most children I knew would be more interested in hearing how a...

Koji pulled Ruben onto the next cog. Together, they became part of the space between things.

I'm planting a tree to teach me to make the world a better place.

You are what you eat. What would YOU like to be?

Tantrums are not bad behavior. Tantrums are an expression of emotion that became too much for the child to bear. No punishment is required. What your child needs is compassion and safe, loving arms to...

Nature attunes children to receive the coded messages that parents issue how to live a joyful and virtuous life.

Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty

Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?

{W}e have reason to ask what artists are working specially for children, and whether they are running with the popular tide or saying something special... . In America, we had the 'parlor gift book'...

When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.

This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.

So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state.

What is so real as the cry of a child?A rabbit's cry may be wilderBut it has no soul.

He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? People were more often--he searched for a simile, found...