“When your children arrive, the best you can hope for is that they break open everything about you. Your mind floods with oxygen. Your heart becomes a room with wide-open windows. You laugh hard every day.” MindHeartChildrenHardRoomsBreakLaughingWindowOur ChildrenWideYour ChildrenFloodOxygen Book:Yes Please Source: Yes Please
“Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good nature and mirthfulness. Irritability comes from errors in food, bad air, too little sleep, a necessity for change of scene and surroundings; from confinement in close rooms, and lack of sunshine.” ChildrenLittlesMotherSleepRoomsAirSceneFindingsOur ChildrenErrorsFaultsYour ChildrenSunshineSurroundingsConfinementGood NatureScoldingFault Finding Author:Herbert Spencer
“Football today is far too much a sport for the few who can play it well; the rest of us, and too many of our children, get out exercise from climbing up the seats in stadiums, or from walking across the room to turn on our television sets.” WellsChildrenPlayTodayTurnsSportsRoomsToo MuchTelevisionFootballWalkingExerciseOur ChildrenSeatsClimbingTurn-onStadiumsClimbing Up Author:John F. Kennedy
“Imagine what it must be like for teenagers who don't feel they have room to breathe in their own homes. If you are a parent reading this book, you care about your child. If she is quirky, unusual, or nonconformist, ask yourself whether you are doing everything you can to nurture her unusual interests, style, or skills, or whether instead you are directly or subtly pushing her to hide them.” IfsFeelsChildrenBookHomeCareReadingAsksParentInterestRoomsImagineStyleSkillsOur ChildrenBreatheTeenagerYour ChildrenPushingUnusualNurtureQuirkyNonconformist Author:Alexandra Robbins
“Our children need to be able to see us take a stand for a value and against injustices, be those values and injustices in the family room, the boardroom, the classroom, or on the city streets.” NeedsChildrenAbleValuesRoomsCitiesStreetsOur ChildrenInjusticeClassroomCity Streets Author:Barbara Coloroso
“In the last 10 years, children have been locked inside their rooms, glued to their PCs. ... But now with mobile technology, we can actually take our children outside into the natural world with their technology.” WorldYearsChildrenHas BeensLastsNaturalRoomsTechnologyOur ChildrenLockedMobileNatural WorldMobile Technology Author:Shilo Shiv Suleman
“I can't imagine why you would want to take your child to see what the career of a writer is like, because it mostly consists of sitting in a room typing, or going to the library and looking something up. Those are not exciting things to watch.” WantChildrenI CanRoomsCareersWatchesImagineSittingExcitingOur ChildrenLibraryYour ChildrenTypingExciting Things Author:Daniel Handler
“A child gets a fever in the United States and it's high enough and sustainable enough, all of us can bring a child to an emergency room. Most Haitians never had that opportunity. They didn't have the emergency room to bring them to. Virtually every time your child has 102 fever, you wait for it to die and you have no clean water to give it.” GivingChildrenStatesEnoughDiesOpportunityWaitingWaterUnitedRoomsUnited StatesOur ChildrenCleanYour ChildrenEmergenciesFeverClean WaterEmergency Room Author:Sean Penn
“What is the psychedelic experience? What promise does it hold for a sane future for our planet and our children? And what is it about it that kindles the kind of loyalty that I feel coming from the people in this room this evening? And I submit to you that it is nothing less than the rebirth of a voice that has been silent for at least a thousand years, the still small voice of the Logos of the planet.” PeopleFeelsYearsKindChildrenDoeHas BeensStillsVoiceRoomsPlanetsPromiseThousandOur ChildrenSilentLoyaltyEveningSaneSubmitThousand YearsRebirthOur PlanetPsychedelicKindlesLogosPsychedelic ExperienceSmall Voice Author:Terence McKenna
“While there's currently great turmoil, there is even greater opportunity for US to work together to transform our community. Far too many of our children are fatherless, far too many of our mothers are standing in the prison waiting rooms and far too many of our young people feel hopeless.” PeopleFeelsChildrenTogetherYoungMotherOpportunityWaitingCommunityRoomsGreaterStandingOur ChildrenPrisonWorking TogetherHopelessOur CommunityTurmoilWaiting RoomsFatherless Author:T.I.
“What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla in the room is that our children with autism today will soon become adults with autism.” ChildrenTodayRoomsEffectsMissingAdultsOur ChildrenDialogueFactorsOur SocietyAutismGorillasChildren With Autism Author:Jenny McCarthy
“You're my life, Elle. When we have our children, they'll be included in that circle and I'm not a man to lose everything. I want you as safe as possible." "So you don't think three protection dogs, a room filled with weapons, a panic room and house that eats people isn't just a little overkill?” PeopleThinkingMenWantChildrenLittlesThreeHouseLosesRoomsDogSafeWeaponsOur ChildrenFilledProtectionCirclesPanicI Want YouOverkill Author:Christine Feehan
“My father used to say the people of Swat and the teachers would continue to educate our children until the last room, the last teacher and the last student was alive. My parents never once suggested I should withdraw from school, ever. Though we loved school, we hadn't realized how important education was until the Taliban tried to stop us.” PeopleShouldChildrenImportantSchoolLastsUsedFatherParentRoomsPowerfulTeacherAliveStudentsOur ChildrenEducateTaliban Author:Malala Yousafzai
“Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.” WayChildrenDreamAbleTogetherBeautifulHouseRoomsAliveDesignGardenOur ChildrenOur FamilyYour ChildrenYour RoomTerrace Book:The Timeless Way of Building Source: The Timeless Way of Building
“Education is in danger of becoming a religion based on fear; its doctrine is to compete. Our children are being led to believe that they are doomed to failure in a world which has room only for those at the top.” WorldBelieveChildrenRoomsDangerBecomingOur ChildrenDoctrineDoomed Book:The Conspiracy Against Childhood Source: The Conspiracy Against Childhood