Quotes about child
children kids thinking
I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble. Paloma Faith
children thinking people
I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child.
children pain memories
Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that I know about, certainly without the usual reason of unhappy memories. For many years that worried me, but then I discovered that the tales of former children are seldom to be trusted. Some people supply too many past victories or pleasures with which to comfort themselves, and other people cling to pains, real and imagined, to excuse what they have become. Lillian Hellman
children shopping rights
Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list. Letty Cottin Pogrebin
children work animal
In the supposedly enlightened eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, parental indifference, child neglect, and raw cruelty appearedamong Europeans of all classes.... In mid-nineteenth- century France, families abandoned their children at the rate of thirty-three thousand a year.... It took sixty years after the criminalization of cruelty to animals for cruelty to children to be made punishable under English law.... Industrialized America added brutalizing child labor to the oppressions of the young.
children emotional giving
Compared to other parents, remarried parents seem more desirous of their child's approval, more alert to the child's emotional state, and more sensitive in their parent-child relations. Perhaps this is the result of heightened empathy for the child's suffering, perhaps it is a guilt reaction; in either case, it gives the child a potent weapon--the power to disrupt the new household and come between parent and the new spouse.
children america nations
America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.
children unique expectations
The family endures because it offers the truth of mortality and immortality within the same group. The family endures because, better than the commune, kibbutz, or classroom, it seems to individualize and socialize its children, to make us feel at the same time unique and yet joined to all humanity, accepted as is and yet challenged to grow, loved unconditionally and yet propelled by greater expectations. Only in the family can so many extremes be reconciled and synthesized. Only in the family do we have a lifetime in which to do it.
children home might
If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?
children breaking-down ready
You can break down anything for a child, and you have to know what your child is ready for and what your child is not. LeVar Burton
children sacrifice thinking
We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise.
children book childrens-books
For me, a good children's book is a good children's book is a good children's book.
children home tablets
And it's here and it's ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children with tablet computers, and I'm committed to doing whatever I can to speaking to whomever I can to send this signal - to pound this message home. Now is the time.
children believe opportunity
I genuinely believe we have an opportunity to revolutionize how we educate our children.
children war lasts
The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.
children childhood assuming
It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable. Lev Grossman
children games bullshit
That’s what death did, it treated you like a child, like everything you had ever thought and done and cared about was just a child’s game, to be crumpled up and thrown away when it was over. It didn’t matter. Death didn’t respect you. Death thought you were bullshit, and it wanted to make sure you knew it.
children book thinking
When I was 35 I realized that I was still thinking a lot about what it would be like to go to Narnia. To really go - not just in a daydream, or in a children's book, but what it would actually feel like, physically, psychologically, every other way. The idea was haunting me.
children childhood children-love
Childhood, whose very happiness is love. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
children sleep conscience
conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep ...
children two cloning
In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one. Leon Kass
children abortion important
The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.
children want steps
It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.
children parent looks
Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.
children responsibility care
Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.
children parent copies
Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.
children laughter jealous
I always was trying to make people laugh as a kid. I was a big fan of Carol Burnett and Gilda Radner. I watched them and I remember feeling as a child, when I heard the laughter they got, a little jealous that they made someone laugh like that. Leah Remini
children thinking depth
I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children. Lea Thompson
children mean land
Howard the Duck!' That's a really interesting movie. I appreciate my career, because I've had a lot of very interesting ups and downs, and most people... That movie is such a famous flop. In a land of a lot of flops, it's kind of awesome to be in a really famous flop. I mean, it's kind of a poster child for flops.
children kids reality
Even one kid going hungry in America is one too many. How can we stand by when the reality is that there are more than 12 million underfed children in the U.S.? We can make a difference. LeAnn Rimes
children party looks
When I turn up at a trendy party, all the youngsters look like they could be my illegitimate love children. Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
children teenager father
Let your child be the teenager he or she wants to be, not the adolescent you were or wish you had been. Laurence Steinberg
children people parent
Parents sometimes feel that if they don't criticize their child, their child will never learn. Criticism doesn't make people wantto change; it makes them defensive.