“Social ills: teenage pregnancy, gangs, children with behavioral problems. All these things can be alleviated if kids got more physical activity for starters.” IfsChildrenProblemKidsSocialActivityPregnancyTeenageGangStartersPhysical ActivityTeenage Pregnancy Author:Edwin Moses
“But the majority of mothers work - and are responsible for taking care of the kids and home. And more fathers are spending more time doing child care and housework, and still working long hours. That work-life conflict is weighing on everybody.” ChildrenLongStillsHomeCareKidsMotherFatherHoursConflictResponsibleMajoritySpendingMore TimeHouseworkWeighingLong HoursChild CareWorking Long Hours Author:Brigid Schulte
“Even as a child, when kids my age would watch cartoons, I preferred watching horror flicks. I had watched some Hollywood horror flicks and even films made by the Ramsay brothers by the time I was six! I have always been biased towards that genre.” ChildrenMadeKidsAgeFilmWatchesBrotherHorrorSixHollywoodGenreCartoonBiased Author:Emraan Hashmi
“I never, ever get involved in politics. With politics you are not allowed to be honest. I don't have time to deal with that. I would rather work with kids.” ChildrenKidsPoliticsDealsHonestHonestyInvolvedBeing HonestGet Involved Author:Dolly Parton
“In some cultures they don't name their babies right away. They wait until they see how the child develops. Like in Dances with Wolves. Unfortunately, our kids' names would be less romantic and poetic. "This is my oldest boy, Falls off His Tricycle, his friend, Dribbles His Juice, and my beautiful daughter, Allergic to Nuts.” ChildrenWould BeKidsBeautifulFallCultureNamesWaitingBoysBabyDaughterPoeticNutsJuiceAllergicDribbleBeautiful DaughterTricycles Author:Paul Reiser
“When I turned 25, something changed in me. I see children in my future 100%. Soon. I started thinking I want my kids to look back and say, 'Wasn't Mummy amazing?' I've really started thinking about what I'm leaving for them.” ThinkingWantLooksChildrenKidsChangedLeavingMy FutureMummy Author:Jessie J
“You know, once you give birth, once you have kids, you realize what's important in life, and you realize it's really not difficult to be a good person. And so when people aren't good around me, I tend to move away from that. There are so many good people in the world, and you want to surround your children with that.” PeopleKnowsWorldWantGivingChildrenPersonsImportantKidsMovingDifficultRealizingBirthOur ChildrenYour ChildrenSurroundGood PeopleGood PersonWhat's ImportantBeing A Good Person Author:Pamela Anderson
“Probably most of the time I watch children's movies because my kids are on the bus, so it requires them.” ChildrenKidsWatchesBus Author:Dave Matthews
“Every child has his own beauty, her own talents. Ikarus Jackson can fly through the air; I want kids to find their own set of wings and soar with him.” WantChildrenKidsAirTalentWingsSoar Author:Christopher Myers
“I'm thinking of writing a children's story about a leaf on a tree who arrogantly insists he's a self-made, independent leaf. Then one day a fierce wind blows him off his branch and to the ground below. As his life slowly ebbs away, he looks up at the magnificent old tree that had been his home and realizes that he had never been on his own. His entire life he had been part of something bigger and more beautiful than anything he could have imagined. In a blinding flash, he awakens from the delusion of self. Then an arrogant, self-centered kid rakes him up and bags him.” ThinkingWritingLooksChildrenMadeSelfStoriesHomeKidsBeautifulRealizingTreeWindOne DayBiggerIndependentBlowBranchesLook UpBagsDelusionArrogantFierceFlashMagnificentLeafsSelf CenteredSelf MadeRakesOld Trees Author:Chuck Lorre
“Children make better readers than adults. They read as carefully as I write; adults read as a means of getting off to sleep. I get letters saying 'I have read your book seventeen times.' If you're an adult novelist and you get that letter, you should be afraid. You're being stalked. Kids always read them seventeen times!” IfsShouldWritingMeanChildrenBookKidsSleepReaderAdultsLettersNovelistsSeventeen Author:Daniel Pinkwater
“I didn't like what was on TV in terms of sitcomsit had nothing to do with the color of themI just didn't like any of them. I saw little kids, let's say 6 or 7 years old, white kids, black kids. And the way they were addressing the father or the mother, the writers had turned things around, so the little children were smarter than the parent or the caregiver. They were just not funny to me. I felt that it was manipulative and the audience was looking at something that had no responsibility to the family.” WayYearsChildrenLittlesKidsMotherFatherFeltParentBlackTermWhiteResponsibilityAudienceSawsColorTvsSmarterLittle KidSitcomManipulativeCaregivers Author:Bill Cosby
“Talking to the parents of older kids was helpful for me, since parents of kids the same age as yours won't admit how horrible their children are.” ChildrenKidsAgeParentTalkingHorribleHelpful Book:Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
“I met this amazing person, and we realized we had very similar views on how we wanted to live our lives. It’s happened quickly, with so many children. Yesterday, picking up the kids from school, Brad turned around in the car, and there were three of them. He couldn’t stop laughing. We love them and are having a great time.” ChildrenPersonsKidsWantedSchoolThreeViewsLaughingOur LivesHappenedCarMetsYesterdayGreat TimesBradAmazing Person Author:Angelina Jolie
“The clerical work is par for the course. "Keep on file in numerical order" means throw in wastebasket. You'll soon learn the language. "Let it be a challenge to you" means you're stuck with it; "interpersonal relationships" is a fight between kids; "ancillary civic agencies for supportive discipline" means call the cops; "Language Arts Dept." is the English office; "literature based on child's reading level and experiential background" means that's all they've got in the Book Room; "non-academic-minded" is a delinquent; and "It has come to my attention" means you're in trouble.” MeanChildrenArtBookKidsOrderFightingCoursesReadingLiteratureLanguageChallengesLevelsRoomsAttentionTroubleDisciplineOfficeStuckBackgroundsAgencyAcademicCopSupportiveFilesCivicsInterpersonalDelinquentsInterpersonal RelationshipLanguage Arts Book:Up the Down Staircase Source: Up the Down Staircase
“I must have been a really tough kid to corral. I got disciplined quite frequently. I guess that would be the best way to say it. The rod, I wore out the rod. You know, Spare the rod and spoil the child? Well, I wore out the rod.” KnowsWayWellsChildrenHas BeensWould BeKidsToughBest WayBeing The BestSparesSpoil Author:Terry Bradshaw
“It's pretty easy to kind of lose your way. Having kids is really helpful. They kind of disabuse you of the notion of your greatness pretty quickly.” WayKindChildrenKidsEasyLosesGreatnessNotionHelpfulHaving Kids Author:Matt Damon
“If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.” IfsWantChildrenKidsParentNiceSelf EsteemParentingMy ChildrenYour ChildrenRaising ChildrenNice ThingsChildren And ParentsChildren LearningRaising KidsParent ChildParents And TeachersSpoiled ChildrenWise ParentsParents HomeYoung ParentsOverhearing Author:Haim Ginott