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“If we are teaching children how to lie,to steal, and to be aggressive, why do schools punish those who lie and steal? and why does the society punish the offender criminal?”
“One of the chief paradoxes of our culture [is] that the welfare of its children, its _future_, is placed almost exclusively in the hands of people of low status, a class it holds in contempt.”
“We owe our loyalty to each other and to our children's children, not to party politics.”
“Praying for your children is the most powerful way you can care for them.”
“Pray that your children will develop a heart that seeks after God.”
“There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.”
“Above all, consider this: The greatest gift we can give ourselves, our children, and our world is to live well and love well.”
“May i have pain,but I don't have regret,that for whom I left all that person my beloved betrayed me.more I have regret for that child who's mother don't love and don't care and worry about his life...”
“Every day as I wave to my children when I drop them off at school, or let one of them have a new experiencelike crossing the street without holding my handI experience the struggle between love and...”
“Eating was still a sore point with Smriti.She failed to understand,when interesting options like mango juice or chocolates were available,why was she forced by her stupid mother to eat boring regul...”
“Our parents are the coolest parents ever. No other generation went on from writing letters to their own parents to sending snapchats to their own kids.”
“We are creating a world where no parent will ever again have to choose between skipping meals and sending their kids to school”
“Young children have no past. The old have no future. The rest are too busy with present. This time-tripod holds up the world. You ignore the importance of this interdependence of the three, the wor...”
“Since the world is ending, Peter quoted from behind us, why not let the children touch the paintings?”
“Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.”
“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 ...”
“Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.”
“And the question is always "When are you going to have kids?" Rather than "Do you want to have kids?”
“A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.”
“My late husband and I started our sons off as readers at a very young age. Today, they are voracious readers.”
