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“Tiffany knew what the problem was immediately. She'd seen it before, atbirthday parties. Her brother was suffering from tragic sweetdeprivation. Yes, he was surrounded by sweets. But the moment he ...”
“Parents often ask - how do I get my child interested in books and reading? One tried and true way that my late husband and I used was paying them to read. For each book that my sons read, we paid t...”
“Hmph. Yes. Him. He had the nerve to turn down our offer of immortality and tell us to pay better attention to our children. Er, no offense. Oh, how could I take offense? Please, go on ignoring me.”
“Train your Children with Patience, Correct them in Love, Don't Discipline them out of hatred”
“Parents don't become inaccessible to your Children, when they don't get the right information from you, they may get the wrong one from an outsider; you are their Caretaker..be wise!”
“She had been to her Great-Aunt Willoughbys before, and she knew exactly what to expect. She would be asked about her lessons, and how many marks she had, and whether she had been a good girl. I can...”
“Is that what love is all about? Needing them to come back to you when they're away? To come home and keep you safe?”
“To increase the odds of being thanked, some people compliment some people; some make kids.”
“Why are you wailing away? What is the matter with you?I was playing and and her lip quivered as she spoke, and it was cloudy, and then a sniff, and then, as I was playing, the sun came out.I gave h...”
“The entire time Albie followed Beverly around the house doing what the children referred to as the stripper soundtra”
“The innocent little girl said at the end of her prayer "Jesus, please take care of yourself because if anything happens to you, we are all in trouble”
“Having a kid is like an industrial revolution of the emotions. Suddenly you can mass produce worry, and guilt.”
“My words are my children. I am eternally grateful to the womb of my mind for conceiving them.”
“Sit Down - What to do if a parent wants to get their child's attention.”
“...take down your baby bump photos from Facebook, take down pictures of your kids too. It is your job to protect your children and not parade them around like little circus freaks or glorified mini...”
“It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts from the puerile to the senile.”
“Rather than standing or speaking for children, we need to stand with children speaking for themselves. We don't need a political movement for children... [we need to] build environments and policie...”
“Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.”
“When we were kids and believed that the game was not fair, we stopped playing. Well, the game of governance is not fair, so we need to stop playing along.”
“Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose its an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening child...”
