“I felt if I went chronologically, I'd get bogged down in childhood and that's part of our culture of complaint in America. This endless wailing about your childhood.” IfsAmericaCultureFeltChildhoodOur ChildrenEndlessYour ChildrenComplaintsWailing Author:Edmund White
“To each his own. It's one of those things. How you build your familyyou have to know what you're capable of handling and how your children will relate to each other. Maybe if you have one child and that child has a lot of needs, you realize you cannot give more attention to another. Sometimes you just know as a parent. We felt we could handle more children, and we have a very happy, very full home.” IfsKnowsNeedsGivingChildrenSometimesHomeFeltParentRealizingAttentionCapableOur ChildrenHandleRelateOur FamilyYour ChildrenVery HappyNeed You Author:Angelina Jolie
“It cannot be doubted that theistic belief is a comfort and a solace to those who hold it, and that the loss of it is a very painful loss. It cannot be doubted, at least, by many of us in this generation, who either profess it now, or received it in our childhood and have parted from it since with such searching trouble as only cradle-faiths can cause. We have seen the spring sun shine out of an empty heaven, to light up a soulless earth; we have felt with utter loneliness that the Great Companion is dead.” LightEarthBeliefHeavenFeltCausesLossSunGenerationsTroubleAtheismChildhoodLonelinessComfortSpringEmptyOur ChildrenShiningPainfulPositive AtheismCompanionCradleSolaceDoubtedLight UpThis GenerationSun ShinesSoulless Book:The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays Source: The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays
“Most of us have felt barriers between ourselves and our fathers and had thought that going it alone was part of what it meant to be a man. We tried to get close to our children when we became fathers, and yet the business of practicing masculinity kept getting in the way. We men have begun to talk about that.” MenWayChildrenFatherFeltOur ChildrenBarriersMeant To BeMasculinityBe A ManOur Father Author:Frank Pittman
“I don't think drugs are a problem; I think they're a symptom. As long as Americans are empty, spiritually, emotionally, morally empty, they will need things like the drugs they choose to use. Mankind has wanted to change the way it felt from the beginning anyway. In this country there are even more reasons to want to feel different, to want to feel better, because this is such a neon sewer. This is such a degrading culture. It forces you to play Beethoven to your child in the uterus so that he will get into a better school and a better job and make more money so he can take care of you.” ThinkingWayWantNeedsFeelsChildrenLongDifferentCountryReasonPlayUseProblemCareWantedSchoolJobsCultureForceFeltMankindDrugEmptyOur ChildrenTake CareYour ChildrenMore MoneyFeel BetterSymptomsBetter JobsDegradingNeonSewersUterus Author:George Carlin
“I felt like all of the work was training for just one central idea: Accept your child for who he is. I'm not saying that I've done a brilliant job with that. But I've done my best.” ChildrenIdeasDoneJobsFeltAcceptingTrainingOur ChildrenBrilliantYour ChildrenJust One Author:Andrew Solomon
“We have a rare and perhaps small window of opportunity to set partisan differences aside, and attempt to achieve what many in recent years have felt was unreachable - greater retirement security for ourselves and our children.” YearsChildrenOpportunityFeltDifferencesGreaterAchieveSecurityWindowOur ChildrenRetirementPartisansWindow Of OpportunityUnreachable Author:Gordon Smith
“If you tell your own story to your children - that includes your positive moments and your negative moments, and how you overcame them - you give your children the skills and the confidence they need to feel like they can overcome some hardship that they've felt.” IfsNeedsGivingFeelsChildrenMomentsStoriesFeltSkillsNegativeOvercomingOur ChildrenYour ChildrenHardship Author:Bruce Feiler
“How would you like your child in kindergarten through 12th grade attending classes with kids who can't read, write, speak or understand English -- or American education values? Furthermore, how would you feel if those students felt zero investment in education, in English and the American way? How would you like your child's education dumbed down to that of a classroom from the Third World? Guess what? Today, if you're a parent of a child in thousands of classrooms across America, that's what's happening to your children with your tax dollars.” IfsWorldWayFeelsWritingChildrenKidsTodayAmericaValuesSpeakFeltParentClassStudentsLike YouTaxesHappeningsThirdsOur ChildrenDollarsInvestmentYour ChildrenGradesZeroClassroomThird WorldAttendingKindergartenAmerican EducationTax DollarsInvestment In Education Author:Frosty Wooldridge
“Right before I met my husband, I always felt as if the party was happening somewhere else. And once I met him and we had our children, I was like, 'This is where the party is.'” IfsChildrenFeltPartyMetsHusbandHappeningsOur ChildrenMy HusbandSomewhere Else Author:Julianne Moore
“You get to live your life again through the eyes of your children. I conquered a fear the other day by going on a roller coaster, I haven't been on one in 15 years - I felt like I was six years old.” YearsChildrenEyeFeltHavensSixOur ChildrenYour ChildrenLive Your LifeThrough The EyesRoller CoasterCoastersSix Year Olds Author:Peter Andre
“My parents have worked their asses off their whole entire lives, they still do, and I never felt like anything would be handed to me. I never felt sorry for myself. I felt like, "Wow, this is incredible. I'm able to do this for myself." I think once you have that sense of empowerment at a young age and you allow your children to have that empowerment, it will fuel them for a lifetime.” ThinkingChildrenStillsWholeWould BeAgeAbleYoungFeltParentEmpowermentOur ChildrenLifetimeSorryIncrediblesAssYour ChildrenFuelWowYoung Age Author:Michelle Monaghan
“During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an attorney, it caused me no end of anxiety. Despite the fact that I knew I was contributing to our family by caring for our children, I still felt that my worth was less because I wasn't earning.” ChildrenStillsEndsFactsHomeKidsFeltPeriodsAnxietyOur ChildrenCaringDespiteOur FamilyEarningAttorneyContributing Author:Ayelet Waldman
“Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything involving our children was painful in some way. The emotions, whether they were joy, sorrow, love or pride, were so deep and sharp that in the end they left you raw, exposed and yes, in pain. The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent's heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.” IfsWayHumansHeartChildrenEndsBodyPainJoyLeftFeltParentEmotionForeverPrideMomSorrowBeatsOur ChildrenParentingPainfulMotherhoodChestsExposedAutismHuman HeartHuman BodyFunny InspirationalInvolvingBeing A MotherBlurBeing A ParentInspirational ParentingParenthood FunnyInspirational ParentsI Love My ParentsSorrow LoveI Love Being A Mother Author:Debra Ginsberg
“When we helped prevent the massacre of civilians trapped on a distant mountain, here's what one of them said: "We owe our American friends our lives. Our children will always remember that there was someone who felt our struggle and made a long journey to protect innocent people." That is the difference we make in the world.” PeopleWorldChildrenLongMadeSaidRememberFeltDifferencesStruggleOur LivesJourneyProtectMountainOur ChildrenInnocentTrappedCiviliansMassacresSafe HavenLong JourneyIsil Author:Barack Obama
“It doesn't matter how your child comes to you. I've never felt such joy and such love. It's the most beautiful delicious little thing.” ChildrenLittlesMatterBeautifulJoyFeltOur ChildrenYour ChildrenLittle ThingsDelicious Author:Didi
“Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet. It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: The history of how you felt.” PeopleChildrenLanguageFeltVictoryOur ChildrenDisappointmentLegacyYour ChildrenLoved OnesReach Out Book:Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories Source: Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories