“This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more.” ThinkingChildrenHappensYoungParentSidesGroupsAdultsOur ChildrenYoung AdultYour ChildrenMentor Author:Geoffrey Rush
“What happens with fear is that probability doesn't matter very much. That is, once I have raised the possibility that something terrible can happen to your child, even though the possibility is remote, you may find it very difficult to think of anything else. Emotion becomes dominant.” ThinkingMayChildrenMatterHappensFearDifficultEmotionPossibilityTerribleOur ChildrenRaisedYour ChildrenDominantProbability Author:Daniel Kahneman
“I could never allow [tax] cuts that devastate education for our children, that pollute our environment, that end the guarantee of health care for those who are served under Medicaid, that end our duty or violate our duty to our parents through Medicare. I just couldn't do that. As long as I'm president, I'll never let it happen.” ChildrenLongEndsHappensCareParentPresidentEnvironmentCuttingDutyTaxesOur ChildrenHealth CareGuaranteesOur EnvironmentMedicareTax CutsMedicaid Author:William J. Clinton
“If we allow the destruction of the environment, we can see the terrorists have utterly won, and are destroying the future of our children and grandchildren. We must not let that happen.” IfsChildrenHappensEnvironmentDestructionOur ChildrenTerroristDestroyingGrandchildrenChildren And Grandchildren Author:Jane Goodall
“I think the main thing is trying to be fair, sometimes there has to be a little bit of discipline, maybe even punishment involved in trying to make your child understand, learn from bad experiences and make sure they don't happen again.” ThinkingTryingChildrenLittlesSometimesHappensBitsDisciplineInvolvedLittle BitFairsOur ChildrenPunishmentYour ChildrenBad Experiences Author:Archie Manning
“One of the monstrous things that slavery in this country caused was the breakup of families. I mean, physical labor, horrible; beatings, horrible; lynching death, all of that, horrible. But the living life of a parent who, A, has no control over what happens to your children, none. They don't belong to you. You may not even nurse them. They may be shipped off somewhere, as in "Beloved" the mother was, to be nursed by somebody who was not able to work in the fields and was a wet nurse.” MayChildrenCountryHappensAbleMotherParentFieldsLaborOur ChildrenSlaveryHorribleLive LifeBelovedYour ChildrenBreakupNurseWetMonstrousLynching Author:Toni Morrison
“Have unconditional love to your children no matter what happens. Give them time even in the midst of this busy life - be one on one with them.” GivingChildrenMatterHappensLife IsOur ChildrenNo Matter WhatBusyYour ChildrenMidstUnconditional LoveUnconditionalBusy LifeOne On One Author:Jennie Finch
“The joy and happiness it gives you or the emotions you go through when you hold your child in your arms for the first time are indescribable! I really thought that there was going be this moment when a ray of light from heaven would come pouring in, background music would start playing with angels singing, but none of that happens!” GivingFirstsChildrenMomentsLightHappensJoyHeavenEmotionArmsSingingAngelFirst TimeOur ChildrenBackgroundsYour ChildrenRaysPouringJoy And HappinessIndescribableRays Of LightBackground MusicAngels Singing Author:Abhishek Bachchan
“Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and let the villans be soundly killed at the end of the book. I think it is possible that by confining your child to the blameless stories of life in which nothing at all alarming ever happens, you would fail to banish the terrors, and would succeed in banishing all that can ennoble them or make them endurable.” ThinkingChildrenBookEndsStoriesHappensFailingKingsBattleSucceedOur ChildrenTerrorYour ChildrenGiantsWickedDragonsDungeonsBlameless Author:C. S. Lewis
“Sometimes the most powerful way to teach our children to understand a doctrine is to teach in the context of what they are experiencing right at that moment. These moments are spontaneous and unplanned and happen in the normal flow of family life. They come and go quickly, so we need to be alert and recognize a teaching moment when our children come to us with a question or a worry.” WayNeedsChildrenSometimesMomentsHappensPowerfulTeachWorryTeachingNormalFlowOur ChildrenDoctrineMost PowerfulThat MomentSpontaneousFamily LifeComes And Goes Author:Cheryl A. Esplin
“Every time a person allows an act of ignorance to happen (one word, thought or action), they delay our progress towards building a beautiful global garden for our children. Every person, molecule, and THING matters. All of our separate actions are a reflection of the actions of the whole.” ChildrenPersonsMatterWholeHappensActionBeautifulProgressIgnoranceBuildingReflectionGardenOur ChildrenDelayOne WordMolecules Author:Suzy Kassem
“The teacher will never be a parent. The parents are the parents. But they have to engage in some sort of active education beyond just teaching mathematics and French and English because the kids spend more time there than they do with their parents at that age. We have to accept that other adults will be part of our children's education and they will have bad teachers. That's going to happen.” ChildrenHappensKidsAgeParentAcceptingTeacherTeachingAdultsOur ChildrenMathematicsActiveMore TimeBad Teacher Author:Philippe Falardeau
“I want to clarify that one doesn't need to be a scientist or have fancy college degrees to know the truth about the health of our children, our communities, and the planet. Community members generally know far more about the health of their own communities than visiting "experts," yet that knowledge is often discredited because of another story that we tell ourselves: "real" education happens [only] in the halls of universities.” KnowsWantNeedsChildrenRealStoriesHappensCommunityCollegePlanetsMembersDegreesScientistOur ChildrenUniversityExpertsFancyHallsVisitingOur CommunityCollege DegreeReal Education Author:Annie Leonard
“September 11 We thought we'd outdistanced history Told our children it was nowhere near; Even when history struck Columbine, It didn't happen here. We took down the maps in the classroom, And when they were safely furled, We told the young what they wanted to hear, That they were immune from a menacing world. But history isn't a folded-up map, Or an unread textbook tome; Now we know history's a fireman's child Waiting at home alone.” KnowsWorldChildrenHomeHappensWantedYoungWaitingOur ChildrenMapsClassroomSeptemberImmuneSeptember 11TextbooksFiremanColumbine Author:Richard Peck
“There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever truth or virtue we happen to have ourselves. It is typical of our time that the more doubtful we are about the value of philosophy, the more certain we are about the value of education. That is to say, the more doubtful we are about whether we have any truth, the more certain we are (apparently) that we can teach it to our children.” ChildrenPhilosophyHappensCertainValuesTeachVirtueOur ChildrenPassingPassingsPhrasesOur TimeTypicalDoubtfulValue Of EducationPassing On Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about if you' re a science fiction novelist, but neither of them ever happens in the real world. What happens in the real world is always a sideways-case scenario. World-changing marvels to us, are only wallpaper to our children.” IfsWorldWritingChildrenRealHappensFunFictionCasesWorstCriticismOur ChildrenScience FictionNovelistsReal WorldScenariosSidewaysUnwrittenWorst Case Scenario Author:Bruce Sterling
“You - will - never - touch - our - children - again!' screamed Mrs. Weasley. Bellatrix laughed, the same exhilarated laugh her cousin Sirius had given as he toppled backwards through the veil, and suddenly Harry knew what was going to happen before it did. Molly's curse soared beneath Bellatrix's outstretched arm and hit her squarely in the chest, directly over her heart. Bellatrix's gloating smile froze, her eyes seemed to bulge: for the tiniest space of time she knew what had happened, and then she toppled, and the watching crowd roared, and Voldemort screamed.” HeartChildrenHappensEyeGivenSpaceLaughingHappenedArmsOur ChildrenCrowdsCurseChestsLaughedHer EyesBackwardsVeilsCousinWeasleySiriusGloatingMolly Weasley Author:J. K. Rowling
“The most significant visions are not cast by great orators from a stage. They are cast at the bedsides of our children. The greatest visioncasting opportunities happen between the hours of 7:30 and 9:30 PM Monday through Sunday. In these closing hours of the day we have a unique opportunity to plant the seeds of what could be and what should be. Take every opportunity you get.” ShouldChildrenHappensOpportunityHoursVisionStageUniqueOur ChildrenPlantCastsSeedsSignificantSundayMondayClosingOratorsPmsUnique Opportunities Author:Andy Stanley
“Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear.” ChildrenHappensResultsCompassionViolenceSocietySecurityCitizensOur ChildrenSafetyInvestmentVulnerableMy ChildrenCollectivesOur SocietyConsensusSafety And Security Author:Nelson Mandela
“What will your children remember? We can change the world inside our own houses. Take the gift of this moment and make something beautiful of it. Few worthwhile experiences just happen; memories are made on purpose.” WorldChildrenMadeMomentsHappensBeautifulRememberPurposeHouseMemoriesOur ChildrenYour ChildrenChanging The WorldWorthwhileSomething Beautiful Author:Gloria Gaither
“But whatever the era, whatever the times, one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first. You must read to your children and you must hug your children and you must love your children. Your success as a family, our success as a society, depends not on what happens in the White House but on what happens inside your house” IfsFirstsChildrenHappensMotherFatherHouseWhiteOne ThingLove YouDependsOur ChildrenErasYour ChildrenWhite HouseHugNever ChangeLove Your ChildrenHug YouThings Will Never Change Author:James E. Faust
“I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.” LifeLooksMayChildrenWarBigsHappensFatherHouseWhiteOur ChildrenWitnessYour ChildrenCivil WarWhite House Book:Lincoln on Democracy Source: Lincoln on Democracy
“It was quite instant that he wanted Harry's approval. Did you notice that? And the children sort of rescued him this time. It's a great turnabout. That's what happens as your children get older. They do things for you, and it's quite shocking when they do.” ChildrenHappensWantedAppreciateOur ChildrenYour ChildrenInstantApprovalShocking Author:Robbie Coltraine