“Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to turn over rocks and find bugs, and give them some space to do that. Take your child fishing. Take your child on hikes.” GivingChildrenTurnsSpaceRocksParticularOur ChildrenYour ChildrenFishingRoughYardsBugsSmall ChildManicures Author:Richard Louv
“The average person's short-term memory can hold only five to seven bits of data at any one moment. If you put more items in, others fall out. The older you are, the more you have crammed into those memory circuits. Twenty-five-year-olds can remember things because they still have empty space. Some of us take our children to the supermarket in the hope they will remember why we are there.” IfsYearsChildrenPersonsStillsMomentsRememberFallBitsTermMemoriesSpaceFiveEmptyTwentiesOur ChildrenSevenAverageDataFive YearsItemsShort TermTwenty FiveCircuitsSupermarketsAverage PersonEmpty SpaceFive Year OldsShort Term Memory Book:Thinking In The Future Tense Source: Thinking In The Future Tense
“The best advice I can give to new parents is to realize immediately that your children will be unique individuals. Give them the space to be themselves and to develop their own personalities and characteristics.” GivingChildrenI CanIndividualParentRealizingSpaceAdvicePersonalityUniqueOur ChildrenYour ChildrenCharacteristicsBest AdviceNew ParentsUnique Individuals Author:Donald Trump
“I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.” ThinkingShouldWritingChildrenFormSpaceProjectsShould HaveOur ChildrenLeavingBreathingYour ChildrenNecks Author:Erica Jong
“To teach your child to only be a Muslim in Muslim spaces or only a Christian in Christian spaces means in a way that you're teaching them a religious identity that is relevant to only a very small part of their lives, because the vast majority of their lives in the 21st century are going to be lived in interaction with others.” WayMeanChildrenChristianReligiousSpaceTeachTeachingCenturyIdentityOur ChildrenMajorityYour ChildrenRelevantInteraction21st CenturySmall PartsInteraction With OthersReligious Identity Author:Eboo Patel
“The only frontier now left to exploit is not a frontier in space but a frontier in time. We steal the future from our children by plunging massively deeper and deeper into debt.” ChildrenLeftSpaceOur ChildrenDeeperDebtStealingFrontiersExploits Author:Terence McKenna
“Medicine, electronic communications, space travel, genetic manipulation . . . these are the miracles about which we now tell our children. These are the miracles we herald as proof that science will bring us the answers. The ancient stories of immaculate conceptions, burning bushes, and parting seas are no longer relevant. God has become obsolete. Science has won the battle.” ChildrenStoriesSpaceAnswersSeaCommunicationBattleMiracleOur ChildrenMedicineAncientProofBurningManipulationConceptionRelevantPartingObsoleteSpace TravelImmaculateBurning BushImmaculate ConceptionElectronic Communication Book:Angels & Demons Source: Angels & Demons
“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
“You're welcome in my house when this is over. We'll open a cask of Master al'Vere's best brandy. We'll remember those who fell, and we'll tell our children how we stood when the clouds turned black and the world started to die. We'll tell them we stood shoulder to shoulder, and there was just no space for the Shadow to squeeze through.” WorldChildrenRememberDiesHouseBlackSpaceMastersShadowOur ChildrenCloudsShouldersWelcomeAlsBrandyYou Re Welcome Book:A Memory of Light Source: A Memory of Light
“All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live on forever as mass or energy. That's what we should be teaching our children, not fairy tales about angels and seeing grandma in Heaven.” ShouldChildrenBodyScienceEnergyHeavenSpaceForeverSeeingTeachingMassAngelOur ChildrenTalesFairyAtomsFairy TaleGrandmaFairytaleSolar SystemFamous WomenTeaching ChildrenWise WomenDisintegrationSmart Women Author:Carolyn Porco