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...

Real gases behaved like ideal gases as long as they remained in stable conditions. When the environment changed, either with increased temperature or mounting pressure, they began to deviate from...

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.

With sensitive children, physical blows or traumas aren't required to make them afraid of the dark.

All laughter is subversive, even the laughter of children.

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

They were young; time hadn't yet rubbed at them, polishing their differences and sharpening their opinions...

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...

... that was Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things to Have a Funner Life and Make a Better Liar Out of Yourself Number 83... If an Adult Tells You Not to Worry, and You Weren't Worried Before, You Better...

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

A lot of children's literature beginners get bogged down by morals. A moral should never be driving the story. And a moral should never be confused with a plot. You can't preach to kids, and you can't...

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.

A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.

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...

Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.

When you hold a child to your breast to nurse, the curve of the little head echoes exactly the curve of the breast it suckles, as though this new person truly mirrors the flesh from which it sprang.

I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the...

Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen...