“It must be emphasized that as a father, you are always teaching. For good or ill your family learns your ways, your beliefs, your heart, your ideas, your concerns. Your children may or may not choose to follow you, but the example you give is the greatest light you hold before your children, and you are accountable for that light.” WayGivingHeartMayChildrenIdeasLightFatherBeliefTeachingExampleConcernOur ChildrenIllOur FamilyYour Children Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“We do live in an unsafe world. That's the truth. I'm dealing with that now, with my seven-year-old. He's grappling with the fact that the world is unsafe, and that there are people who do harmful things. I don't think there's anything wrong with presenting that idea. We can't lie to our children and pretend that the world is perfect, and everybody's happy, and everybody's out there to do good. It's just part of a bigger conversation.” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsChildrenIdeasFactsLyingPerfectConversationBiggerOur ChildrenSevenSeven YearsPresentingUnsafeGrappling Author:Gwyneth Paltrow
“Children must be free to think in all directions irrespective of the peculiar ideas of parents who often seal their children's minds with preconceived prejudices and false concepts of past generations. Unless we are very careful, very careful indeed, and very conscientious, there is still great danger that our children may turn out to be the same kind of people we are.” PeopleThinkingMindKindMayChildrenStillsIdeasPastTurnsParentGenerationsDangerConceptsPrejudiceOur ChildrenCarefulPeculiarSealsPast Generations Author:Brock Chisholm
“The partisans of eugenic planning hear that other music, the music that says that there shall be nothing random in the world, nothing independent, nothing moved by its own vitality, nothing out of keeping with some idea: even our children must not be our progeny, but our creation.” WorldChildrenIdeasCreationOur ChildrenIndependentMovedPlanningVitalityPartisansProgeny Author:Charles Frankel
“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
“Whenever I hear anything described as a heartless assault on our children, I tend to think it’s a good idea.” ThinkingChildrenIdeasOur ChildrenGood IdeasAssaultHeartless Author:William Kristol
“Picking one of your favorite creation or character is like picking the best one of your children! I'm not sure it really works. My very favorite characters tend to be ones I can go back to and look at, and have no idea how they popped out of my head.” LooksChildrenI CanIdeasCharacterCreationOur ChildrenNo IdeaYour ChildrenNot SureYour FavoriteFavorite Characters Author:Neil Gaiman
“Is there an idea more radical in the history of the human race than turning your children over to total strangers whom you know nothing about, and having those strangers work on your child's mind, out of your sight, for a period of twelve years? Could there be a more radical idea than that? Back in Colonial days in America, if you proposed that kind of idea, they'd burn you at the stake, you mad person! It's a mad idea!” IfsKnowsYearsMindHumansKindChildrenPersonsIdeasAmericaRacePeriodsSightOur ChildrenMadStrangerRadicalYour ChildrenHuman RaceStakesTwelveRadical IdeasMad Person Author:John Taylor Gatto
“I think that parents ought to get some idea of how the so- called "experts" have changed their advice over the decades, so that they won't take them deadly seriously, and so that if the parent has the strong feeling, "I don't like this advice," the parent won't feel compelled to follow it. . . . So don't worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children.” IfsThinkingWayFeelsTryingChildrenIdeasFeelingsJobsStrongParentPerfectWorryAdviceChangedOughtOur ChildrenDecadesOne WayYour ChildrenExpertsCompelledStrong FeelingNew ParentsPerfect Job Author:Benjamin Spock
“Parents ought, through their own behavior and the values by which they live, to provide direction for their children. But they need to rid themselves of the idea that there are surefire methods which, when well applied, will produce certain predictable results. Whatever we do with and for our children ought to flow from our understanding of and our feelings for the particular situation and the relation we wish to exist between us and our child.” NeedsWellsChildrenIdeasFeelingsCertainValuesWishParentUnderstandingResultsSituationProduceParticularOughtBehaviorFlowRelationOur ChildrenMethodPredictable Author:Bruno Bettelheim
“The sequestration is a bad idea, all around. It is something that is out of the question. If you have spending cuts, education of our children, other investments, on the National Institutes of Health, where you are hindering growth, you're no going to reduce the deficit.” IfsChildrenIdeasGrowthCuttingOur ChildrenInvestmentSpendingWhere You AreDeficitInstituteBad IdeasInstitutesSpending Cuts Author:Nancy Pelosi
“I was raised with this idea of hard work and keeping doors open. To be able to choose what you want to do in the future. That was what we tried to tell our children, too.” WantChildrenIdeasHardAbleDoorsHard WorkOur ChildrenRaisedWhat You Want Author:Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
“The one thing about kids is that you never really know exactly what they're thinking or how they're seeing. After writing about kids, which is a little bit like putting the experience under a magnifying glass, you realize you have no idea how you thought as a kid. I've come to the conclusion that most of the things that we remember about our childhood are lies. We all have memories that stand out from when we were kids, but they're really just snapshots. You can't remember how you reacted because your whole head is different when you stand aside.” ThinkingKnowsWritingLittlesIdeasDifferentWholeKidsRememberLyingBitsRealizingMemoriesSeeingOne ThingChildhoodLittle BitOur ChildrenGlassesConclusionNo IdeaStanding OutSnapshotsMagnifyingMagnifying Glass Author:Stephen King
“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
“There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that.” WayShouldTryingIdeasChildhoodOur Children Author:John Darnielle
“The biggest single problem of American parents today is the foolish idea that you just have to be a friend to your children. Kids need parents, not just another pal. This means being able and willing to say no, to challenge faulty thinking, and to expect accountability.” ThinkingNeedsMeanChildrenIdeasProblemKidsTodayAbleParentChallengesWillingOur ChildrenFoolishYour ChildrenAccountabilityPals Author:Steve Biddulph
“Parents, do you wish to see your children happy? Take care, then, that you train them to obey when they are spoken to, -to do as they are bid.... Teach them to obey while young, or else they will be fretting against God all their lives long, and wear themselves out with the vain idea of being independent of His control.” ChildrenLongIdeasCareYoungWishParentTeachOur ChildrenIndependentTrainTake CareVainYour ChildrenLong LifeFretting Author:J. C. Ryle
“Many teachers of the Sixties generation said "We will steal your children", and they did. A significant part of America has converted to the ideas of the 1960s - hedonism, self-indulgence and consumerism. For half of all Americans today, the Woodstock culture of the Sixties is the culture they grew up with - their traditional culture. For them, Judeo-Christian culture is outside the mainstream now. The counter-culture has become the dominant culture, and the former culture a dissident culture - something that is far out, and 'extreme'.” ChildrenSaidIdeasSelfTodayChristianAmericaCultureHalfTeacherGenerationsGrewGrew UpOur ChildrenExtremesSignificantStealingTraditionalFormerYour ChildrenMainstreamSixtyConsumerismDominant1960sIndulgenceSelf IndulgenceDissidentsHedonismWoodstockDominant CultureCounter Culture Author:Pat Buchanan
“Teach your children to listen carefully and to speak thoughtfully. The best way to teach this is to listen carefully and speak thoughtfully to your children, from the time they are babies. Take their questions and ideas seriously... learning to speak and listen as if our words matter is fundamental to education. Dialogue is not the same as mindless chatter. Above all, listen, listen, and listen to your kids.” IfsWayChildrenIdeasMatterKidsSpeakTeachBabyOur ChildrenFundamentalsBest WayDialogueYour ChildrenOur WordsMindlessChatterWords Matter Author:Grace Llewellyn
“Once parents have a clear idea of their important parenting goals, beliefs, and values, they can then think about specific situations and identify the outcomes they would like to achieve in these situations. How can you be the parent you want to be whether or not your children are behaving as you would prefer?” ThinkingWantChildrenImportantIdeasValuesBeliefParentGoalSituationClearAchieveOur ChildrenYour ChildrenOutcomesBeliefs And Values Author:Timothy Carey
“Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better - they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth.” MindChildrenHas BeensIdeasSoulValuesFoundLostWealthTakenOur ChildrenBoxesCreditCardsChainsPlasticMortgageCredit CardBallots Author:Andrew Young
“Do you have any idea how stubborn you can look ? Our children better never give me that look, althought I won't mind if they give it to you. You'd deserve it.” IfsGivingMindLooksChildrenIdeasDeserveGive MeOur ChildrenStubborn Book:Night Game Source: Night Game
“Our children may save us if they are taught to care properly for the planet; but if not, it may be back to the Ice Age or the caves from where we first emerged. Then we'll have to view the universe above from a cold, dark place. No more jet skis, nuclear weapons, plastic crap, broken pay phones, drugs, cars, waffle irons, or television. Come to think of it, that might not be a bad idea.” IfsThinkingFirstsMayChildrenIdeasMightCareAgeUniverseDarkViewsPayEnvironmentCarTelevisionTaughtPlanetsBrokenColdDrugWeaponsOur ChildrenPhonesNuclearIceIronPlasticPollutionNuclear WeaponsCrapEcologyCavesJetMother EarthBad IdeasSkisNature And EnvironmentDark PlacesSave Mother EarthIce AgeSave The EnvironmentWafflesSave The PlanetSave NatureSave Our Planet Author:Jimmy Buffett
“I want to write about the great and powerful thing that listening is. And how we forget it. And how we don't listen to our children, or those we love. And least of all - which is so important, too - to those we do not love. But we should. Because listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.” WantShouldWritingChildrenImportantIdeasForceGrowsForgetPowerfulCreativeStrangeListeningOur ChildrenForget ItStrange ThingsMagneticThose We Love Author:Brenda Ueland
“We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've always had a private notion of children. Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven't had a very collective notion of these are our children. So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.” ShouldKindChildrenIdeasWholeKidsParentCommunityEducationResponsibilityBreakHavensShould HaveOur ChildrenNotionAfrican AmericanCollectivesRecognizingBreak ThroughPublic Education Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“I have never bought into the idea that blood is thicker than water. Love and respect are meant to be earned from our children, our spouses, our families, and our friends.” ChildrenIdeasWaterBloodOur ChildrenOur FamilyMeant To BeSpouseLove And RespectBlood Is Thicker Than Water Book:Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina Source: Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina