“That's a deep change in priorities. People are much less political today. They have found other values of life. We are developing normal attitudes, a normal set of priorities. We are growing out of our childhood.” PeopleTodayPoliticalValuesFoundAttitudeGrowingChildhoodNormalOur ChildrenPrioritiesDevelopingValue Of Life Author:Tom Segev
“Children model the behavior of adults, on whatever scale is available to them. Ours are growing up in a nation whose most important, influential men - from presidents to the coolest film characters - solve problems by killing people. ... We have taught our children in a thousand ways, sometimes with flag-waving and sometimes with a laugh track, that the bad guy deserves to die.” PeopleMenWayChildrenImportantSometimesCharacterProblemFilmGuyDiesNationsPresidentLaughingGrowing UpGrowingTaughtThousandBehaviorModelsAdultsDeserveMurderOur ChildrenKillingTrackAvailableSolveScalesFlagsBad GuysInfluentialFlag Waving Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“I worry very much about kids growing up in a society where they think: "I'm not going to talk about this issue, read this book or explore this idea because someone may think I'm a terrorist." That's not the kind of free society I want for our children.” ThinkingWantKindMayChildrenBookIdeasKidsWorryGrowing UpIssuesGrowingOur ChildrenTerroristFree SocietyNsaKids Growing Up Author:Bernie Sanders
“People know more about baseball players contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our childrens lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, Do you want to bring a child into this world? Thats pretty dire.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldWantYearsChildrenWholeUsedGrowing UpFateGrowingPlayerPolicyThis WorldBaseballTwentiesOur ChildrenContractsBaseball Player Author:Jackson Browne
“Sometimes when I talk to little children I remind them of the fact that when I was growing up myself, I used to play with frog eggs and tadpoles and I used to walk in the field, I used to literally copy whatever my mother was doing on the land. And that may be the reason why I eventually developed the passion for green and for the Earth. So it is extremely important for adults and especially those who are in charge of cities to make sure that we do not lose touch with the land and with the environment. And especially our children.” MayChildrenLittlesImportantSometimesReasonPlayFactsEarthUsedMotherPassionLosesWalksCitiesGrowing UpEnvironmentGrowingLandFieldsAdultsOur ChildrenGreenReason WhyEggsCopiesFrogsTadpoles Author:Wangari Maathai
“Is there someone who passively watches his children growing up? We constantly and maximally invest ourselves into our children to realize our vision of happiness. But not for us - for those children. It's not enough that we molest ourselves, so we have to molest the children as well.” WellsChildrenEnoughHappinessRealizingVisionWatchesGrowing UpGrowingOur ChildrenChildren Growing UpGrowing Children Author:Ruben Papian
“When I was growing up, you were supposed to marry and therefore didn't plan ahead. Planning ahead is one of the few reliable measures of class in the sense that rich people plan for generations forward and poor people plan for Saturday night, and by that measure, women have been lower class. We were less likely to plan ahead because we're more likely to think that who we marry and our children are going to dictate our plans.” PeopleThinkingChildrenHas BeensNightPoorClassGrowing UpRichGrowingPlansGenerationsOur ChildrenPlanningSaturdayPoor PeopleRich PeopleSaturday NightLower ClassPlanning Ahead Author:Gloria Steinem
“Growing up sometimes forces us to confront the distance between our childhood hope and the truth.” SometimesForceGrowing UpGrowingChildhoodOur ChildrenDistance Author:Sara Shandler
“Whatever discipline you exercise should be based on the goal your child is eventually to reach, namely, freedom and happiness. I would show him towards what he is growing, his ultimate fulfilment, and help him to adapt himself to that. In everything that you do, you should keep the goal in view, and hence your discipline must aim at helping the child to realize that at a certain stage he will be above all discipline.” ShouldChildrenHelpingShowsCertainGoalRealizingViewsGrowingStageDisciplineExerciseUltimateOur ChildrenAimYour ChildrenFulfilmentFreedom And Happiness Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where it's irresponsible to try to protect them from the irrational world they will have to live in when they grow up. The children themselves haven't yet isolated themselves by selfishness and indifference; they do not fall easily into the error of despair; they are considerably braver than most grownups. Our responsibility to them is not to pretend that if we don't look, evil will go away, but to give them weapons against it.” IfsWorldGivingTryingLooksChildrenFallEvilGrowsParentResponsibilityGrowing UpGrowingHavensProtectDespairWeaponsOur ChildrenErrorsParentingPeacefulSecureSelfishnessIndifferenceGoing AwayCivilizedIsolatedIrrationalIrresponsibleGrownups Author:Madeleine L'Engle
“If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can’t imagine a different world, they are stumbling through a darkness made all the more sinister by its lack of reference points. For a young person growing up in America’s alienated neighborhoods, there can be no greater empowerment than to dare to speak from the heart — and then to discover that one is not alone in ones feelings.” IfsKnowsWorldFeelsHeartMeanChildrenPersonsMadeDifferentFeelingsAmericaYoungSpeakVoiceDarknessKnow HowGrowing UpGreaterGrowingImagineEmpowermentOur ChildrenDareNeighborhoodNot AloneDifferent WorldsSinisterStumblingSpeak From The Heart Author:Rita Dove
“I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise.” PeopleChildrenMadeTwoHousePerfectMarriageGrowing UpGrowingMinesPromiseMarriedOur ChildrenFaultsImperfectProtectedOur LoveBeing MarriedI Loved YouMarriage LifeMarried CouplesGreat MarriageInspirational MarriageChildren Growing UpLasting MarriageProtecting ChildrenPerfect MarriageEncouraging Marriage Author:Thornton Wilder
“Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be fulfilled. Growing up means gaining the wisdom and the skills to get what we want within the limitations imposed by reality - a reality which consists of diminished powers, restricted freedoms and, with the people we love, imperfect connections.” PeopleWantMeanDreamRealityGrowing UpKnowingGrowingChildhoodSkillsLetting GoConnectionsOur ChildrenAgingLimitationImperfectFulfilled Author:Judith Viorst
“I doubt that we can ever successfully impose values or attitudes or behaviors on our children certainly not by threat, guilt, or punishment. But I do believe they can be induced through relationships where parents and children are growing together. Such relationships are, I believe, build on trust, example, talk, and caring.” BelieveChildrenTogetherValuesI BelieveParentAttitudeDoubtGrowingExampleTrustBehaviorOur ChildrenGuiltThreatCaringPunishmentFather SonChildren And ParentsGrowing Together Author:Fred Rogers
“Etymology: from Latin ad-, "to" + visum, past participle of videre, "to see". Advice is what you get from your parents when you are growing up, and from your children when you are growing old.” ChildrenPastParentGrowing UpGrowingAdviceOur ChildrenYour ChildrenLatinAdsGrowing OldEtymology Author:Evan Esar
“That we need help is easy to see every time we walk down the street. The experts confirm what the obscured view in front of us tells us. They estimate that 64% of adults in the United States are obese and that this percentage is growing. Even our children are being affected, as nearly every one in three American children under the age of 18 is overweight.” NeedsChildrenStatesHelpingAgeThreeEasyLossWalksUnitedViewsUnited StatesGrowingStreetsFrontsAdultsOur ChildrenExpertsAffectedPercentagesWeight LossOverweightNeed HelpObese Book:Calorie Wars: Fat, Fact and Fiction Source: Calorie Wars: Fat, Fact and Fiction
“I am concerned about the growing problem of sexual abuse and exploitation of our children.” ChildrenProblemGrowingConcernedAbuseOur ChildrenChild AbuseExploitation Author:Jim Ryun