“I have a two-year-old who just turned three, and my four-year-old just turned five. I have the same irrational feelings taking them to pre-school. It's this charged combination of stress and joy and anxiety and excitement. When they're away, you've got a sudden loss of purpose and this ever-present fear about the kid's welfare. The departure of our children from our nest is not an easy thing.” YearsChildrenTwoFeelingsKidsSchoolJoyPurposeThreeEasyLossFiveFourAnxietyStressOur ChildrenCombinationWelfareExcitementTwo YearsFour YearsIrrationalNestsDepartureEasy ThingsTwo Year OldsPre School Author:Vera Farmiga
“I've had a pretty crazy life. It's colorful ... reliving some of those closets that I had shut, locked and thrown away the key intentionally because it was painful to revisit a lot of those places - especially the loss of my buddy Robbie Tooley, the divorce of my parents, some of the things I went through as a kid, a lot of that stuff was locked up for a reason - it was painful. But at the same time, there was some therapy in revisiting some of those spots.” ReasonKidsStuffParentLossCrazyKeysPainfulDivorceSpotsTherapyThrownLockedClosetsBuddyColorfulLocked UpCrazy Life Author:Billy Ray Cyrus
“The [character] that I was able to crawl into the most was Lilo from Lilo & Stitch. This was sort of a cartoony-looking girl, but her problems were completely real. Her funky world that she createdI mean, you know kids like that. It was very honest and genuine and I wanted to do an honest job, so I thought about the character a lot before I animated it. I really got into the character, where [I] almost felt that pain that she had. The loss of the parents - you need to feel all that. That was a big learning experience for me.” KnowsWorldNeedsFeelsMeanRealCharacterProblemBigsKidsAbleWantedPainJobsGirlFeltParentLossHonestGenuineAnimatedLearning ExperienceStitchesFunky Author:Andreas Deja
“I remember, when I was a little kid, I was good at sports, and I could jump off the high board. And then puberty hit, and suddenly I was looking to boys for direction. I remember that as a great loss.” LittlesKidsRememberSportsLossBoysBoardsLittle KidRemember WhenPubertyGreat Loss Author:Francine Prose
“We go hard. In everything we do we're going to accomplish our victory and our goal. If it takes a day, a year, or 20 years, we're going to win. I haven't taken a loss because everything I've done has been a working process to win. From being a kid on them turntables to becoming where I am is not a loss. It's a blessing.” IfsYearsHas BeensHardDoneKidsWinningProcessGoalLossTakenHavensBecomingVictoryBlessingAccomplishKey To SuccessBeing A KidGo HardTurntables Author:DJ Khaled
“There is a big difference to someone being born with vision loss, to a kid having vision loss, to a senior having macular degeneration and losing their sight.” BigsKidsBornDifferencesLossVisionLosingSightSeniorDegeneration Author:Marla Runyan
“My dad died in May of '97. The effects of his death immediately were not all that hard, but a year or two later it hit, when my job as Dad was sort of done and I was sending my kids to college. And somehow, the emotional intensity of that event mixed with the loss of my own dad, was kind of upsetting.” YearsKindMayTwoHardDoneKidsJobsMy OwnLossEffectsEventsEmotionalCollegeDadDiedMy DadUpsetIntensityDad DiedMy Dad Died Author:Wayne Watson
“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.” PeopleHeartKidsPainSongCultureLossMusicWorryViolenceSadnessBrokenListeningGunMiseryScaredViolentVideoTeenagerRejectionFidelityKids Playing Book:High Fidelity Source: High Fidelity