“Where I did feel a difference is learning to just work in a different way so that your resources are not completely depleted so that you don't have anything to give to your child when you go home, and fortunately I've been working long enough that I know how to make that shift so that I don't compromise my work or compromise my relationships; not compromising parenting is really the biggest difference.” KnowsWayGivingFeelsChildrenLongDifferentEnoughHomeDifferencesKnow HowResourcesOur ChildrenCompromiseYour ChildrenDifferent Ways Author:Laura Linney
“I'd like to hope you end up a miserable, lonely woman. But actually, I hope you have children one day, Ellie Haworth. Then you'll know how it feels to be vulnerable. And to have to fight, to be constantly vigilant, just to make sure your children get to grow up with a father.” KnowsFeelsChildrenEndsFightingFatherGrowsKnow HowGrowing UpOne DayLonelyOur ChildrenVulnerableMiserableYour ChildrenVigilantLonely Women Author:Joanna Noelle Levesque
“I had four children. And my youngest when we started was like, oh, gosh, 2 or a little less. And sometimes my kids would say to me, you know, how come you don't scream at those kids on television like you do us?” KnowsChildrenLittlesSometimesKidsKnow HowFourTelevisionLike YouOur ChildrenScream Author:Florence Henderson
“We know what we have to do. And we know how to do it. If we fail to convert our self-destructing economy into one that is environmentally sustainable, future generations will be overwhelmed by environmental degradation and social disintegration. Simply stated, if our generation does not turn things around, our children may not have the option of doing so.” IfsKnowsMayChildrenDoeSelfTurnsSocialKnow HowEconomyFailingGenerationsOur ChildrenEnvironmentalSustainabilityOverwhelmedFuture GenerationDegradationOur GenerationDisintegrationEnvironmental Degradation Author:Lester R. Brown
“Adults don't know how to respect and really love their young ones. Often love is confused with possession. You say "this is my" about your child, without taking into account that you're dealing with a real person with his/her own personality, rights, and autonomy, even when very young.” KnowsChildrenPersonsRealYoungLove IsKnow HowRightsPersonalityAdultsAccountsOur ChildrenPossessionYour ChildrenConfusedAutonomyReal PersonYoung Ones Author:Dacia Maraini
“In our childhoods we either get all the social and emotional and ethical skills we need to be well adjusted adults, or we don't. Some of us don't know how to tell someone we like them. A lot of us get depressed and get wasted. Why don't we do something that makes us feel better? Because we don't know any other way. When I didn't have enough skills I compensated with drugs and alcohol. It's like there was a hole in the wall and I put a poster over it.” KnowsWayNeedsFeelsWellsEnoughSocialKnow HowChildhoodEmotionalWallDrugSkillsAdultsOur ChildrenAlcoholHolesOver ItEthicalFeel BetterPostersDrugs And Alcohol Author:Bucky Sinister
“I believe that one of the most damning things about our culture is the adage to never talk religion and politics. Because we don't model this discourse at the dinner table and at Thanksgiving, we don't know how to do it well and we're not teaching our children about the world and about how to discuss it.” KnowsWorldBelieveWellsChildrenCultureI BelieveKnow HowTeachingModelsOur ChildrenTablesDinnerDiscourseAdagesDinner TableReligion And Politics Author:Julianna Baggott
“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
“We are accustomed to repeating the cliché, and to believing, that 'our most precious resource is our children.' But we have plenty of children to go around, God knows, and as with Doritos, we can always make more. The true scarcity we face is practicing adults, of people who know how marginal, how fragile, how finite their lives and their stories and their ambitions really are but who find value in this knowledge, even a sense of strange comfort, because they know their condition is universal, is shared.” PeopleKnowsBelieveChildrenStoriesFacesValuesKnow HowConditionsStrangeComfortAmbitionAdultsResourcesUniversalOur ChildrenPlentyFragileFiniteAccustomedGod KnowsScarcityDoritos Author:Michael Chabon
“Every place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away from your children or grandchildren. You should have to license it so the police can trace it if it's used in a crime. [On keeping guns]” IfsKnowsShouldChildrenCountryShowsUsedKnow HowCrimeGunShould HavePoliceOur ChildrenStoresYour ChildrenGrandchildrenLicense Author:Michael D. Barnes
“None of us knows how long he shall live or when his time will come. But soon, all that will be left of our brief lives is the pride our children feel when they speak our names.” KnowsFeelsChildrenLongLife IsDeathNamesLeftSpeakKnow HowDyingPrideOur ChildrenBrief Life Author:Hiroyuki Sanada
“I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.” KnowsYearsFirstsChildrenRealityLastsParentKnow HowForeverDependsOur ChildrenParenthoodExhausting Author:Rob Reiner