“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