“Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, "In the streets of London," if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life.” IfsMenGivingChildrenStillsCountryCharacterRunningAgeSchoolAsksWaterBoysFiveStreetsFieldsHe ManHundredFairsGreenLondonCharmHolidayFifteenPresumptionRunning WaterGreen Fields Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out of turn, chewing gum in class, doing homework, stepping out of line, cleaning their rooms. Then it listed the five top concerns of parents today: drug addiction, teenage pregnancy, suicide and homicide, gang violence, anorexia and bulimia. We can also add AIDS, poverty, and homelessness. . . . Between my own childhood and the advent of my motherhood--one short generation--the culture had gone completely mad.” ChildrenTodayTurnsCultureParentLinesMy OwnRoomsTalkingClassPovertyGoneFiveTeacherViolenceGenerationsChildhoodDrugConcernSuicideMadAddAddictionMotherhoodAidsFeaturesUsaPregnancyTeenageCleaningGangHomelessnessHomeworkAnorexiaDrug AddictionDrug AddictAdventGumChewingBulimiaSnapshotsHomicideParents And TeachersChewing GumTeenage PregnancyGang ViolenceAnorexia And Bulimia Author:Mary Blakely
“If I could summarize my suggestions to parents over the past twenty-five years it would be: worry less, criticize less, preach less, listen more, have more fun, be more honest with your own feelings, develop your own joys and friendships, and don't sweat the small stuff (which is nearly everything). The goal is not to be a perfect parent, because no such thing exists. The hope is to be a good enough parent so that your child leaves home a responsible adult who can take care of him or herself.” IfsYearsChildrenEnoughFeelingsHomeWould BeCarePastJoyFunStuffParentGoalPerfectWorryFiveHonestAdultsTwentiesResponsibleOur ChildrenTake CareYour ChildrenFive YearsIf I CouldCriticizeGood EnoughSweatSuggestionsOver The PastTwenty FiveSmall StuffSweat The Small StuffWorry LessPerfect Parents Author:Charlotte Sophia Kasl
“A child should be allowed to take as long as she needs for knowing everything about herself, which is the same as learning to be herself. Even twenty-five years if necessary, or even forever. And it wouldn't matter if doing things got delayed, because nothing is really important but being oneself.” IfsNeedsShouldYearsChildrenLongImportantMatterForeverKnowingFiveTwentiesOneselfFive YearsTwenty FiveDelayedKnowing Everything Author:Laura Riding
“The frantic search of five-year-olds for friends can thus be seen to forecast the beginnings of a basic shift in the parent-childrelationship, a shift which will occur gradually over many long years, and in which a child needs not only the support of child allies engaged in the same struggle but also the understanding of his parents.” NeedsYearsChildrenLongParentUnderstandingSupportStruggleFiveFriendsEngagedFive YearsAlliesFive Year OldsFranticForecastsParent Child Author:Dorothy H Cohen
“No one seriously disputes that today a woman in Afghanistan is less likely to die giving birth to a child, that the child is more likely to reach the age of five years old, and having reached the age of five that child is far more likely to have a chance to go to school.” GivingYearsChildrenAgeTodaySchoolDiesChanceFiveBirthFive YearsAfghanistanDisputesGiving BirthFive Year Olds Author:Graeme Smith
“I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what is it like to be a child between the ages of five and then... I can remember exactly what it was like. I am certain I can.” ChildrenI CanAgeRememberCertainFiveForgottenConvinced Author:Roald Dahl
“We can decide that the presence of cancer-causing substances in our air, water, and food is too expensive. A 2009 study, for example, has found that coal miners in Appalachia costs the region five times more in premature deaths, including from cancer, than it provides to the region in jobs, taxes, and economic benefits. In California, the production and use of hazardous chemicals cost the state $2.6 billion in 2004 alone in lost wages and health-care expenses to treat workers and children with pollution-linked diseases.” ChildrenStatesUseCareJobsFoundLostWaterStudyFiveAirEconomicExampleCostTaxesDiseaseBenefitsTreatsEnvironmentalWorkersIncludingCancerProductionsBillionsHealth CareSubstanceCaliforniaExpensiveRegionsExpensesChemicalsPollutionWagesCoalLinkedPrematureMinersAppalachiaCoal MinersPremature Death Author:Sandra Steingraber
“1 billion people are permanently and seriously malnourished. Every five seconds, a child dies.” PeopleChildrenDiesFiveBillionsSeconds Author:Jean Ziegler
“Nine to Five is actually one of my favorite movies. I watched it a thousand times when I was a child, literally a thousand times.” ChildrenFiveThousandMy FavoriteNine Author:Leslie Mann
“Each soul has it's own path. Children are young personalities but they are not always young souls. Incarnation into the domain of the five senses is a dramatic act of spiritual responsibility. Neonates are great souls and so I honor their paths. I do the best that I can, but the best that I can do is to change myself. To make myself a citizen like I want others to be.” WantChildrenI CanSoulSpiritualYoungCan DoResponsibilityPathFivePersonalityCitizensHonorSensesDramaticDomainDo The BestIncarnationGreat SoulsFive Senses Author:Gary Zukav
“A person with no children says, "Well I just love children," and you say "Why?" and they say, "Because a child is so truthful, that's what I love about 'em - they tell the truth." That's a lie, I've got five of 'em. The only time they tell the truth is if they're having pain.” IfsWellsChildrenPersonsHumorFunnyPainLyingFiveTruth IsTelling The TruthEmsTruthfulOnly TimeChildren Love Author:Bill Cosby
“I try not to be a prisoner to those kinds of thoughts or ideas of what I think my life should be or shouldn't be. That's why I've never had a five-year plan. I always knew that I wanted to have children. It wasn't kind of something that I discovered later. I also never felt the biological clock ticking because I think I always knew that I wanted to adopt.” ThinkingShouldTryingYearsKindChildrenIdeasWantedFeltFivePlansClockFive YearsPrisonerFive Year PlansClock TickingBiological Clock Author:Kristen Stewart
“You can't write a children's book that takes more than five or six minutes to read, because it will drive the parents batty. It has to be compact. Nobody thinks about the parents when they write these stupid books. I could write longer children's books, but it would actually be bad if I did.” IfsThinkingWritingChildrenBookParentFiveMinutesStupidSixChildren's BooksCompact Author:Michael Ian Black
“It takes a while to master the art of hammock-lounging. At first I could only manage five minutes or so before I thought I ought to get out and go and help a child learn how to swim or something. But after observing the Mexicans' capability for staring into space for hours on end, I decided to put in some proper practice.” FirstsChildrenArtEndsHelpingHoursSpacePracticeFiveMinutesMastersOughtDecidedManageStaringSwimCapabilityFive MinutesObservingHammocksLoungingStaring Into Space Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“There's nothing like the bravery and the strength and the extraordinary optimism of a five-year-old child in a cancer hospital, fighting to live. It's there inside the spirit.” YearsChildrenSpiritFightingFiveOptimismBraveryExtraordinaryCancerFive YearsHospitalsFive Year Olds Author:Frank Langella
“They think my father has a lack of concern for human rights, but regardless of details, the Americans should be humanitarian in dealing with his family, because we are human. Saddam has three young ladies and they have children, I have five, Rana has four, and Hala has two. Therefore, our father is very dear to us. His grandchildren love him a lot. Why aren't humanitarian factors taken into account?” ThinkingShouldHumansChildrenTwoYoungThreeFatherTakenFiveFourRightsConcernAccountsDearHuman RightsDetailsHumanitarianFactorsGrandchildrenSaddamOur FatherChildren LoveYoung Ladies Author:Raghad Hussein
“I don't believe in making five-year plans. I don't want to say, "Yes, I want to have children in the next five years," because I don't know. I've always known that I'd like to be a mom, but I don't want to live by a schedule. If I [did], I wouldn't be living in the moment.” IfsKnowsWantYearsBelieveChildrenMomentsNextKnownFivePlansMomDon't BelieveFive YearsLive BySchedulesLive In The MomentFive Year Plans Author:Charlize Theron
“When people watch me on TV they see part of my life. I wanted to let them know the real me behind the scenes. The child who was a concert violinist from the age of six. The young woman who took on the challenge to compete in the Miss America pageant. The television journalist for twenty-five years. The mother of two who, just like most women, struggles to balance work and family.” PeopleKnowsYearsChildrenTwoRealAgeWantedAmericaYoungMotherChallengesBehindsWatchesStruggleFiveMissingTelevisionTvsBalanceSceneSixTwentiesJournalistFive YearsConcertsYoung WomenTwenty FiveBehind The ScenesWatch MePageantViolinistReal MeMiss America Author:Gretchen Carlson
“Certainly there was the Affordable Care Act part, then unaccompanied children [there has been a surge of children entering the country illegally and without parents, particularly in Texas], and things like, we find smallpox in an NIH lab, after 50 years? Why didn't you find it, like, five weeks ago or three years ago? There was thing after thing. But the big ones were [dealing with] the Ebola [outbreak], the unaccompanied children. [It was] perhaps a bigger challenge than I had calculated on my yellow pad as I was thinking about this role.” ThinkingYearsChildrenHas BeensCountryBigsCareThreeParentChallengesRolesFiveWeekYears AgoBiggerTexasYellowThree YearsEnteringAffordableLabsPadsEbolaOutbreaksSmallpoxAffordable Care Act Author:Sylvia Mathews Burwell
“Who and of what import were the men whose bones bulk the Great Wall, the thirty million Mao starved, or the thirty million children not yet five who die each year now? Why, they are the insignificant others, of course; living or dead, they are just some of the plentiful others...And you? To what end were we billions of oddballs born?” MenYearsChildrenEndsDiesCoursesBornMillionsFiveHe ManWallBonesBillionsThirtyInsignificantImportsMaoPlentifulOddballsGreat Wall Book:For the Time Being Source: For the Time Being
“If you're a parent, the five worst words you can say to your children are, "When I was your age ..." You were never their age. You were older in the womb.” IfsChildrenAgeParentFiveWorstOur ChildrenYour ChildrenWomb Author:Bill Cosby
“I am excited to have the opportunity to help provide the same swim instruction that I received as a child when I was enrolled in a water safety class at five-years-old.” YearsChildrenHelpingOpportunityWaterClassFiveSafetyExcitedFive YearsSwimInstructionFive Year OldsWater Safety Author:Michael Phelps
“I can't help but react to the painful realities of the two-tiered society we live in, where the signs of poverty and inequity are everywhere. Almost twenty five percent of our children live at or below the poverty line. We expect the no-option life cycle of the poor to be interrupted by the weak social safety net and then wonder why building more jails doesn't solve the problems.” ChildrenI CanTwoHelpingProblemRealitySocialLinesPoorWonderPovertyFiveBuildingPercentWeakTwentiesOur ChildrenSafetyPainfulSolveCyclesJailTwenty FiveInterruptedSafety Net Author:Peter Yarrow
“We were little children, four or five years old, but they were all around the house and they made us look epic, like we were part of some story being told. My mom would have this woman come to our house and take photos of us. She did a photo book of us as well when I was one. I still have it.” YearsWellsLooksChildrenLittlesMadeStillsBookStoriesHouseFiveFourMomMy MomFive YearsEpicFive Year Olds Author:Jeff Vespa
“I was a child actor, so when I started filming when I was five years old, it was a long time ago.” YearsChildrenLongActorsFiveLong TimeFive YearsLong Time AgoFive Year OldsChild Actors Author:Hiroyuki Sanada
“I've always got on better with boys. Most of my friends are boys. Like, if I have children, I want five boys. Boys love their mothers whereas girls can be so mean to each other.” IfsWantMeanChildrenMotherGirlBoysFiveMy Friends Author:Adele
“I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.” ChildrenDifferentLevelsIssuesFivePersonalityRaisedDifferent LevelsLearning Experience Author:T. D. Jakes