“One Dad I know uses what I call Post-It® Note therapy on his children. He leaves sticky Post-It Notes everywhere ...in their lunch box, inside their shoes, on top of their sandwich before he wraps it up. He once went into his daughter's room, looking for his hammer, and on the back of her bedroom door were every Post-It Note he'd ever given her - over 250 in all with simple messages like 'Great job'...'I love you'...or 'You're special to me.' Do you think that girl knew, without a doubt, that her Dad valued her and loved her?” ThinkingKnowsChildrenUseJobsGirlGivenSimpleRoomsDoubtDoorsSpecialLove YouDadMessagesDaughterNotesShoesBoxesPostsTherapyLunchBedroomHammersWrapsSandwichesGreat JobThat GirlStickySpecial To MePost It Notes Author:Jack Canfield
“Every man is responsible for defending every woman and every child. When the male no longer takes this role, when he no longer has the courage or feels the moral responsibility, then that society will no longer be a society where honor and virtue are esteemed. Laws and government cannot replace this personal caring and commitment. In the absence of the Warrior protector, the only way that a government can protect a society is to remove the freedom of the people. And the sons and daughters of lions become sheep.” PeopleMenWayFeelsChildrenGovernmentLawResponsibilityMoralRolesVirtueSonHonorProtectDaughterCommitmentResponsibleMalesCaringAbsenceEvery ManWarriorRemoveLionsSheepProtectorSon And DaughterMoral ResponsibilityLaws And Government Author:James Williams
“I don't struggle to forgive people. I find it quite easy to forgive people for the harms that they have inflicted on me. What I do find challenging is to forgive people for the harms they inflict on my daughters and family. So, I find it challenging when I see somebody else experience hurt. I also look at my children and family and then I realize, I don't stand inside their skin and that is for me a forgiveness practice I still need to engage in.” PeopleNeedsLooksChildrenStillsEasyRealizingChallengesHurtPracticeStruggleDaughterSkinsForgivingHarmMy ChildrenMy Daughter Author:Desmond Tutu
“One time I was at a swimming pool with my kids, a public pool. I had my daughter, my six year old, on my arm like this. She was like clamped on, and she's kicking. ... And then she got off and another random child just clamped on. It's like a rat. "Get off of me." "But I love you." "I don't know you, kid."” KnowsYearsChildrenKidsFunnyComedyLove YouArmsSixDaughterMy DaughterSwimmingPoolOne TimeRatsKickingSix Year OldsSwimming Pool Author:Louis C. K.
“Having a daughter and a grandson, I certainly could relate to the fact that this child, who you simply dote on, being taken away from you at an early age, and every single kind of emotion you would have to go through.” KindChildrenFactsAgeEmotionTakenDaughterRelateAway From YouGrandsonHaving A Daughter Author:Judi Dench
“When I became a father acting sort of took the place of what I did in my free time and my children became the main focus. I play a lot and my children play. Both my sons - my daughter's still too young really - have surpassed me with their music skills, which is wildly irritating.” ChildrenStillsPlayYoungFatherActingFocusSonSkillsDaughterMy ChildrenMy DaughterMy SonIrritatingFree TimeChildren Playing Author:Paul Bettany
“We're children of God through our blood kinship with Christ. We're also sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, with a hereditary craving for forbidden fruit salad.” ChildrenChristBloodSonDaughterFruitAdamForbiddenCravingSaladChild Of GodAdam And EveKinshipHereditarySon And DaughterForbidden FruitFruit Salad Author:Barbara Brown Taylor
“God...should never have been expelled from America's schools. As we struggle to teach our children...we dare not forget that our civilization was built by men and women who placed their faith in a loving God. If Congress can begin each day with a moment of prayer...so then can our sons and daughters.” IfsMenShouldChildrenHas BeensMomentsSchoolAmericaPrayerForgetTeachStruggleSonCivilizationDaughterMen And WomenBuiltOur ChildrenCongressDareEach DayLoving GodSon And Daughter Author:Ronald Reagan
“With every movie I produce, I learn something. I watch the directors. It's like the relationship you have with your children. I'm there to learn from my daughters. They are the perfect spirits.” ChildrenSpiritPerfectWatchesProduceDirectorsDaughterOur ChildrenYour ChildrenMy Daughter Author:Guillermo del Toro
“Children make the best measurements of time. It is only when I see the son or daughter of a friend or relative over periods of time, do I realize how much time has passed based on how much they've grown.” ChildrenRealizingSonPeriodsDaughterRelativeMeasurement Author:Suzy Kassem
“I just wanted my daughter to grow up, get married, have children and get divorced like everyone else.” ChildrenWantedGrowsGrowing UpMarriedDaughterMy DaughterDivorced Author:Cher
“In the case of two actors connecting with each other and trusting each other, our bodies have memories without us having to consciously think about it, so rather than think, "Oh, I must think about my daughter dying," you just let that go and trust that you have all the emotions you need in there, and by losing yourself in the scene, that stuff kicks in without having to spend the day thinking about horrific things happening to your own child.” ThinkingNeedsChildrenTwoBodyActorsStuffMemoriesEmotionCasesDyingSceneLosingHappeningsDaughterThings HappenKicksMy DaughterConnectingLosing YourselfHorrificTrusting Each Other Author:Michael Sheen
“I believe our legacy will be defined by the accomplishments and fearless nature by which our daughters and sons take on the global challenges we face. I also wonder if perhaps the most lasting expression of one's humility lies in our ability to foster and mentor our children.” IfsBelieveChildrenFacesLyingMotherI BelieveChallengesAbilityWonderHumilitySonExpressionDaughterOur ChildrenDefinedFearlessLegacyAccomplishmentLastingMentorOur DaughterChallenges We Face Author:Naveen Jain
“On having a child: This is the most exciting thing that has ever happened to us. But I don't want to bring my daughter into a world where I'm not comfortable telling everyone who I am and who her mother is.” WorldWantChildrenMotherHappenedComfortableDaughterExcitingWho I AmMy DaughterExciting Things Author:Jenna Wolfe
“I am proud that I am a good mother to my children, a good daughter to my mother, a good sister to my sis (Ashley Judd) and a good wife to my new husband.” ChildrenMotherWifeProudHusbandDaughterMy ChildrenGood MotherGood WifeAshleyGood Sister Author:Wynonna Judd
“I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!” ThinkingChildrenBookMotherReadingGrewGrew UpDaughterPassionateMy DaughterHarry PotterPottersOnly ChildPlowing Author:Kate Beckinsale
“We already had an adopted daughter, 10-year-old Courtney, from my previous marriage. To me, there is no difference between 'natural' and 'adopted.' My own childhood showed me that when it comes to loving your kids, concepts like that don't apply. I was the oldest of six, and three of my siblings were adopted. Mom and Dad even took in foster children. 'There are no limits to how much you can love,' Dad always said.” YearsChildrenSaidKidsThreeNaturalDifferencesMy OwnChildhoodMomDadLimitsSixDaughterConceptsAdoptedSiblingLoving YouFoster ChildrenMom And DadMy SiblingsCourtneyDad Love Author:Al Roker
“There's a kind of intimacy that happens between a mother and an only child. Which only gets more intimate when it's between a mother and only daughter.” KindChildrenHappensMotherDaughterIntimacyIntimateOnly ChildOnly Daughter Author:Leigh Newman
“Well, when Eleanor Roosevelt's mother dies, she goes to live with her Grandmother Hall. And her Grandmother Hall is in mourning. She's in widow's weeds. She's in her 50s, but appears very old. And she's exhausted from raising rather out-of-control children. Her favorite daughter, Anna, has died (Eleanor's mother), and she has living at home two other sons, Vallie and Eddie. And they are incredible sportsmen, incredible drinkers, out-of-control alcoholics.” WellsChildrenTwoHomeMotherDiesSonDaughterDiedIncrediblesMourningGrandmotherHallsWeedExhaustedAlcoholicsWidowsAnnaDrinkersEleanorSportsman Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“There's a case in Baton Rouge, haunting me, where a mother left her twelve-year-old daughter to be babysat (every day for months) by a known pedophile and his four perverse friends, and the news broke of the bodies of two children, dead after long-term physical abuse, found in a storage locker in California. What hardest for me is, I suppose, what's hardest for my country” YearsChildrenLongTwoCountryBodyMotherFoundLeftTermKnownCasesFourMonthsNewsDaughterAbuseHardestBrokeCaliforniaLong TermTwelveHauntingLockersStoragePhysical AbuseRougeBatonBaton Rouge Author:Laura Mullen
“I think you've all heard my story about my daughter and how we felt Children's Hospital saved her life when she was less than a year old. I won't go through all of the details of that.” ThinkingYearsChildrenStoriesFeltHeardDaughterDetailsSavedMy DaughterHospitals Author:Jack Nicklaus
“Sometimes I'll say, "I wrote that book," and the person will look at you as if you're really strange. One time that happened to my daughter on a plane. She was sitting next to a girl who was reading one of my books and my daughter said, "My mother wrote that book." And the girl started to quiz my daughter, asking her all sorts of questions, like what are the names of Judy's children and where did she grow up. My daughter thought it was so funny.” IfsLooksChildrenPersonsSaidBookSometimesMotherGirlReadingNextNamesGrowsGrowing UpHappenedStrangeDaughterSittingAskingPlanesMy DaughterOne TimeQuiz Author:Judy Blume
“I was working in, being a single parent with a grieving child of five years old. It was horrendous. I couldn't go out much, because I had my daughter to look after. So people used to come round, and Tony Harrington from The Wire came round.” PeopleYearsLooksChildrenUsedParentFiveDaughterRoundsGrievingFive YearsMy DaughterWireFive Year OldsSingle ParentBeing A Single Parent Author:David Toop
“I'll say - I have four kids! I married a woman when I was 24 years old. She was 13 years my senior. She had been married twice before. I adopted them. I was 24 and had a 17-year-old son instantly, an 11-year-old daughter, a 5-year-old, and a child on the way. So I had to learn how to become a parent very quickly.” WayYearsChildrenKidsParentFourSonMarriedDaughterSeniorAdopted Author:Tony Robbins
“That's not what I want my children to hear. That's not representative of the country that I want my children to grow up in. And so that actually I found far more upsetting as a mom, as a woman, as an American, and even as my mother's daughter than anything they said about my mom.” WantChildrenSaidCountryMotherFoundGrowsGrowing UpMomDaughterMy MomMy ChildrenUpsetRepresentativesThey Said Author:Chelsea Clinton
“Barbara [my wife] and I said a long time ago that if we were in a position to help somebody, it would be kids. So when we started the Memorial Tournament (in Columbus, OH), Nationwide Children's Hospital, which saved my daughter's life when she was less than a year old, was the beneficiary from day one.” IfsYearsChildrenLongSaidHelpingWould BeKidsWifePositionLong TimeDaughterMy WifeSavedMy DaughterHospitalsMemorialLong Time AgoTournamentsColumbusBarbaraBeneficiaries Author:Jack Nicklaus
“I grew up an only child, so I was so much more adult. My eldest daughter is 10, and I was so much more of an adult than she is. She just doesn't care for the real world. She's not interested.” WorldChildrenRealCareGrewGrew UpDaughterAdultsReal WorldNot InterestedOnly ChildEldestEldest Daughter Author:Samantha Bee
“Particularly in relationship to my father - there's something that daughters, girl children, do almost instinctually in their relationships with their father, so that physically, those boundaries must be respected and never crossed.” ChildrenGirlFatherDaughterBoundariesGirl Child Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“I don't want my children to be at a disadvantage, growing up in the limelight, because then they have to live up to an identity already cut out for them, relating all the time to being so-and-so's daughter or so-and-so's son.” WantChildrenGrowing UpCuttingGrowingIdentitySonDaughterMy ChildrenDisadvantagesLimelight Author:Chrissie Hynde
“The Democrats are as concerned about raising our kids and making sure that the values of empathy and hard work and discipline and self-respect are instilled in our children, and I've got a six-year-old daughter and a three-year-old daughter, and I'm not afraid to talk about how I want to provide them with the sort of cultural framework that's going to allow them to be successful, happy people.” PeopleWantYearsChildrenSelfHardKidsValuesThreeSuccessfulHard WorkDisciplineSixEmpathyDaughterConcernedOur ChildrenDemocratSelf RespectBeing SuccessfulThree YearsNot AfraidFrameworkHappy PeopleSix Year OldsThree Year Olds Author:Barack Obama
“I said to one young activist who herself was the daughter of an undocumented worker, and so could speak from a very personal and legitimate perspective - I remember saying to her: I agree with you, from a moral perspective, that a child from Honduras is worth the same as my daughter. God is not a respecter of boundaries; he's not saying that American kids deserve a better life than Honduran kids. But I'm the president of the United States, and the nation-state by definition means that boundaries mean something and borders mean something.” MeanChildrenSaidStatesKidsRememberYoungSpeakNationsPresidentUnitedMoralUnited StatesPerspectiveDaughterDeserveAgreeWorkersDefinitionsBoundariesBordersMy DaughterActivistBetter LifeHondurasUndocumented Workers Author:Barack Obama
“I just think to be in that place, to be surrounded as I will and for my brief moment in the inauguration ceremony by my wife and by my children and my daughter-in-law, with family looking on from behind us in the platform and many Hoosiers coming to be out in the crowds, I expect - it's again, it will be very, very humbling.” ThinkingChildrenMomentsLawBehindsWifeDaughterCrowdsMy WifeMy ChildrenMy DaughterPlatformsCeremonyIn-lawsHumblingInaugurationBrief MomentsHoosiersDaughter In Law Author:Mike Pence
“Persons who have cleansed themselves of any transgression and who have shown their ability to deal with homosexual inclinations and put them in the background, and feel a great attraction for a daughter of God and therefore desire to enter marriage and have children and enjoy the blessings of eternity - that's a situation when marriage would be appropriate.” FeelsChildrenPersonsWould BeDesireEnjoyAbilityDealsSituationBlessingDaughterEternityAttractionBackgroundsAppropriateHomosexualInclinationTransgressionDaughter Of God Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“I have seen a lot of men, for example, who will make a will and include their daughters whether they are married or not. And perhaps the greatest change of attitude is that today, at least in Kenya, if you don't send your child to school - unless it's a matter of poverty or religion, and it is not that there no schools - then people wonder, "why the hell don't you send your children to school?" Now that's a very big jump from when I was going to school and educating girls was an exception to the rule.” PeopleIfsMenChildrenMatterBigsTodaySchoolGirlAttitudeWonderPovertyHellExampleMarriedDaughterOur ChildrenYour ChildrenExceptionKenyaException To The Rule Author:Wangari Maathai
“We really have to think about aging because women are living longer than men. More of the people who need care are women. A lot of them are living alone, with no one to care for them, or they're shunted into institutions. I would like to see a sensible aging policy more like what the Nordic countries have. They're cutting back those programs, but there you can still have in-home nursing care. You don't have to rely on your children. I personally don't want to be a burden on my daughter.” PeopleThinkingMenWantNeedsChildrenStillsCountryHomeCareCuttingPolicyDaughterProgramOur ChildrenInstitutionsAgingBurdenYour ChildrenRelyMy DaughterSensibleNursingLiving AloneNordic Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children.” WorldFeelsChildrenPersonsRealMotherDaughterMy ChildrenBetrayReal PersonPrivate Things Author:Nicole Kidman
“I have always tried to keep an honest, age-appropriate line of communication open with my daughter,India, even during the teen years, a painful time of development when they usually shut down, and the last person they want to speak to is a parent. But India would always tell me what was going on, so I really encourage people to be as open with your children as you possibly can.” PeopleChildrenSpeakParentHonestCommunicationDaughterOur ChildrenPainfulYour ChildrenMy Daughter Author:Eric Benet
“For me, it was always clear that Toni Erdmann is more a film about what globalization, capitalism, does with private relationships much more than making a "political" film. It's more interesting to raise questions, because I don't feel in a position to "make a statement" with the film. Toni Erdmann comes from a completely different generation then his daughter, it's the post-war generation, they were very politically engaged. They raised their children with a lot of human worldviews, sent them out in the world believing in a world without borders.” WorldBelieveChildrenDifferentFilmPoliticalInterestingDaughterCapitalismGlobalizationWorldview Author:Maren Ade
“You love your child and you want to protect your child more than anything on this planet, and yet by the time they're 17, 18, they're going to step into this world, and that world will not feel the same compunction, necessarily, toward your daughter.” WorldChildrenLove YouProtectDaughterOur ChildrenYour ChildrenOur DaughterLove Your Children Author:Connie Nielsen
“Some husbands think, "This is my wife," or a parent thinks "This is my child." From a spiritual perspective, this is a misconception. The higher truth is: "This wife is God's beloved daughter, entrusted in my care. And the way I serve God is by giving her respect, protection, appreciation and empowerment. This is what God wants me to give his child."” ThinkingGivingChildrenCareSpiritualParentWifePerspectiveTruth IsHusbandDaughterEmpowermentAppreciationMy WifeProtectionMy ChildrenBelovedWant MeServing GodMisconception Author:Radhanath Swami
“Every Republican candidate in the country is going to be asked whether in a debate or where else, by opponents or by the press, do you consider Donald Trump to be an appropriate role model for the children of our state? And it just - as far as the women's vote reported on in Georgia, it makes it so, not simply difficult. It makes it almost impossible for somebody with self-respect, who has a mother or sister or a daughter, somebody like this in Abraham Lincoln's chair.” ChildrenCountryMotherDifficultImpossibleRepublicanDaughterVoteDebateRole Models Author:Mark Shields
“This is the kind of upbringing we had instead of sitting in front of a damn television set all day long and never answering to anybody else unless somebody spoke up from a television set. It's an altogether different way of living today that you wonder how it really affects the family? I know how it affects the family because I have my own son who has his children and also my daughter. It's one of those things. Everybody eats in their own way and off they go. You know? It's not family oriented anymore."” KindChildrenLongDifferentTodayWonderSonDaughterMy DaughterUpbringing Author:Ernest Borgnine
“Some of us are taught to ask for help. Some of us don't feel comfortable asking for help. Some of us will get into trouble because we don't want to share things with adults - maybe because we're used to getting in trouble. I have two daughters, and they're very different from each other. One will tell me everything. The other barely tells me anything at all. Who do I worry about the most? I worry about the quiet one. But it's something I wish I had had when I was a child, that feeling of having someone I could ask for help.” ChildrenDifferentHelpingFeelingsWishWorryTroubleShareQuietDaughter Author:Amy King
“I was really strict about my daughter sleeping in her own room, and now she's really independent and likes it that way. So I think for all new moms, I can totally see how you can get wrapped up in making your child 100% your time. But if you could just take 5% or 10% for yourself a day, it won't just make the difference in your confidence, but also your sanity. I think once you just set boundaries and how you're going to parent - everyone parents differently so I hate to be that person to tell them how anyone should parent, I think whatever works for you works.” ThinkingChildrenHateParentSleepMomDaughterI HateOur ChildrenIndependentBoundariesYour ChildrenMy DaughterSanity Author:Kim Kardashian
“Women tend to be more interested in reconciliation. A Kenyan woman leader said to me, "You know, in a war, men and women want different things. The men care a lot about territory. And they care where the borders are. And they want this whole state. The women," she said, "they want a safe place." And she put her fingers like this, "They want a safe place for their children to go to school without being shot, for their daughters to not be raped."” MenChildrenDifferentWarCareSchoolLeaderHe ManDaughterMen And WomenReconciliationWomen Want Author:Swanee Hunt
“Writing was my companion and stories were my companion when I was bedridden and didn't think I was going to walk again and all of that treacherous stuff. And stories are how you can comfort a child. It's certainly how I comforted my daughter, in good and bad times.” ThinkingWritingChildrenComfortDaughterCompanionMy DaughterGood And BadBad Times Author:Jennifer Lynch
“Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children - the way you'd ache and love a screwed-up rebel daughter in juvenile hall.” ThinkingWayChildrenSometimesLostDaughterAnd LoveGod LoveHallsRebelAcheMessed UpScrewed UpJuvenile Author:Anne Lamott
“I haven't lived my life through my daughters. Some parents devote everything to their children, which must be so hard, and it's very beautiful. But I'm a working parent, so I've always kept my own life.” ChildrenHardBeautifulParentMy OwnHavensDaughterMy DaughterMy Own LifeVery BeautifulWorking Parents Author:Annie Lennox
“If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.” IfsGivingChildrenRelationshipDaughterEnthusiasmYour ChildrenBirthdayMy DaughterChild AbuseMother DaughterMother And DaughterYour DaughterYour SonChildren And ParentsParent ChildEnthusiasm For LifeDaughter To FatherGreat ParentsLove Your ChildrenLove My DaughterInspirational ParentsWonderful ParentsI Love My DaughterOnly Daughter Author:Bruce Barton