“I like to sing and it's just really fun to sing, and I don't get too much. And at my house I'm not allowed to because, you know, your children can't stand it when you sing at home.” KnowsChildrenHomeHouseFunToo MuchOur ChildrenYour Children Author:Garrison Keillor
“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
“It is hard to find someone who will give your children a feeling of security while it lasts and not wound them too much when it isfinished, who will treat those children as if they were her own, but knows--and never forgets--that they are yours.” IfsKnowsGivingChildrenHardFeelingsLastsForgetToo MuchSecurityTreatsOur ChildrenWoundsYour ChildrenNever Forget Book:Living Out Loud Source: Living Out Loud
“We expect too much from our children. We exact from them a perfection which we are far from carrying out in ourselves; we require of them sacrifices much heavier, comparatively, than those of any grown-up person.” ChildrenPersonsToo MuchSacrificePerfectionOur Children Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
“Especially with our first child, we tend to take too much responsibility--both credit and blame--for everything. The more we wantto be good parents, the more we tend to see ourselves as making or breaking our children.” FirstsChildrenParentResponsibilityToo MuchOur ChildrenBlameCreditBe GoodGood Parent Book:Whole child, whole parent Source: Whole child, whole parent
“It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter” ChildrenHomeEnergyEnjoyToo MuchOur ChildrenElectricalMeterElectrical Energy Author:Lewis Strauss
“Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.” ThinkingKnowsMenShouldChildrenWould BeTogetherPoliticalAsksPoliticsGrowsKnownGrowing UpToo MuchMagicShould HaveOur ChildrenLegendsBe A ManShould Have Known Author:Jackie Kennedy
“It's not funny at all that we do all that advertising for children. Why is advertising for children allowed? What possible reason can there be for having those effing adverts on TV for all this crap that's made by poor people in poor countries that we sell our children who have too much?” PeopleChildrenMadeCountryReasonPoorToo MuchTvsOur ChildrenSellsAdvertisingCrapPoor PeoplePoor CountriesAdverts Author:Emma Thompson
“Every day we do get closer to a cure. Three out of four children who are diagnosed with cancer will survive the disease, but that is not good enough. The loss of one child to this disease is too much.” ChildrenEnoughThreeLossToo MuchFourDiseaseOur ChildrenCancerCuresGood EnoughNot Good Enough Author:Michael McCaul