“At the end of your life you will probably end up in an old-age home, or in a back room in one of your children's houses, left only with a handful of fading memories and a body racked with great pain and suffering.” ChildrenEndsHomeBodyAgePainSufferingHouseLeftMemoriesRoomsOld AgeYour ChildrenHandfulFadingPain And Suffering Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“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
“One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.” FeelsHappensAbleCertainRoomsChildhoodMusic IsSmellGreat ThingsYour ChildrenCapabilityTime Travel Author:M. Ward
“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
“I'm like a stuffed toy. You've never met me, but if you did, you'd just want to take me home and put me in your child's room.” IfsWantChildrenHomeRoomsMetsYour ChildrenTake MeToys Author:Richard Simmons
“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