“Maybe I would have become an actor. I was a very outgoing kid, but being in the hospital - being outside of social action for so long - turned me into an observer. Actually, right after I got out of the hospital, I did start writing a novel, but the book was so transparently about me that I stopped.” WritingLongBookKidsActionActorsSocialNovelHospitalsObserversOutgoingSocial Action Author:Brent Runyon
“Do I want Social Security to be there for my kids and my grandkids? Absolutely. Will I fight like a tiger to make sure that we protect Social Security? I absolutely will.” WantKidsFightingSocialSecurityProtectTigersSocial SecurityGrandkids Author:Claire McCaskill
“As a kid, I never thought I'd be an actress. Never, ever, ever, no way. I was really shy - bordering on social disorder shy - and I was really academic.” WayKidsSocialActressesShyDisorderAcademic Author:Rebel Wilson
“I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.” WayGivingKidsGamesSocialChanceIssuesInfluenceBaseballGive MeImpactSocial IssuesGive Me A ChanceBaseball Love Author:Cal Ripken, Jr.
“I'd love to see a new form of social security ... everyone taught how to grow their own; fruit and nut trees planted along every street, parks planted out to edibles, every high rise with a roof garden, every school with at least one fruit tree for every kid enrolled.” KidsSchoolFormSocialGrowsTreeStreetsSecurityTaughtGardenFruitParksNutsRoofSocial SecurityFruit TreesEdibles Author:Jackie French
“So many people think that social studies and weird lessons in social studies, teaching kids in America are bad, is it the result of Common Core? And it's not. It's not. Common Core does not deal with social studies. It's basically writing and math.” PeopleThinkingWritingDoeKidsAmericaSocialResultsDealsCommonStudyTeachingLessonsMathCoreSocial StudiesTeaching KidsCommon Core Author:Megyn Kelly
“I think kids have got to learn how to work with what's happening, work with social, work with everything. To complain about how things aren't the way they used to be.” ThinkingWayKidsUsedSocialHappeningsComplainingUsed To BeSocial Work Author:Diplo
“Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. Kids are supposed to make their own plans, keep up with sophisticatedly crude discussions, and be able to go out on their own without supervision.” KidsAbleSchoolSocialParentPlansMiddleDiscussionFadesCrudeMiddle SchoolSupervision Author:Bill Vaughan
“Social ills: teenage pregnancy, gangs, children with behavioral problems. All these things can be alleviated if kids got more physical activity for starters.” IfsChildrenProblemKidsSocialActivityPregnancyTeenageGangStartersPhysical ActivityTeenage Pregnancy Author:Edwin Moses
“We all know or have read about someone who has been burned on social media. We have taught our kids not to post pictures publicly that could impact their future, but we have not yet taught ourselves that texts, messages and social media posts could be used just as maliciously or with as much downside as pictures.” KnowsHas BeensKidsUsedSocialMediaTaughtMessagesImpactSocial MediaPostsBurnedText Message Author:Mark Cuban
“The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary, prohibition is directly responsible for the power of crack dealers to terrorize whole neighborhoods. And every cent spent on the cops, investigators, bureaucrats, courts, jails, weapons, and tests required to feed the drug-war machine is a cent not spent on reversing the social policies that have destroyed the cities, nourished racism, and laid the groundwork for crack culture.” WarWholeKidsCultureSocialBlackCommunityJusticeCitiesPolicyDrugCreatingWeaponsRacismTestsMachinesResponsibleCourtContraryDestroyedDecentNeighborhoodCracksJailCentsCopProhibitionDealerBureaucratsWar On DrugsInvestigatorsGroundworkSocial Policy Book:No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays Source: No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays
“Faith can be stirred within the walls of church buildings, but faith is formed and nourished in the waiting rooms of hospitals, helplessly witnessing a thirty-one-year-old sister suffer, holding kids affected by the AIDS epidemic, and being stretched outside of our own social makeup.” YearsKidsSufferingSocialWaitingChurchRoomsBuildingWallAidsThirtyMakeupAffectedHospitalsEpidemicsWaiting RoomsAids EpidemicChurch Buildings Author:Josh Ross
“Kids should speak to each other. They're horrid to each other online, they bully each other - they should shut up and stop it. The problem with social media is there is too much freedom. It's too much, too young.” ShouldProblemKidsYoungSpeakSocialToo MuchMediaSocial MediaOnlineShut UpBully Author:Cara Delevingne
“By looking at autistic kids, you can't tell when you're working with them who you're going to pull out, who is going to become verbal and who's not. And there seem to be certain kids who, as they learn more and more, they get less autistic acting, and they learn social skills enough so that they can turn out socially normal.” EnoughSeemsKidsCertainTurnsSocialActingSkillsNormalAutisticSocial Skills Author:Temple Grandin
“Before babies, I worked very hard to make sure I understood my surroundings and figured out where I fit in the world, whether it was at work or whether it was in a social situation. And with kids, you just can't. The rule is you can't really do that because they dictate and they change so much so you just have to go with the flow more and be present and not have big expectations and be amused all the time.” WorldHardBigsKidsSocialSituationBabyFitExpectationsUnderstoodFlowSurroundingsAmused Author:Neil Patrick Harris
“A new survey found that 12 percent of parents punish their kids by banning social networking sites. The other 88 percent punish their kids by joining social networking sites.” KidsFoundSocialParentPercentSiteNetworkingJoiningSurveysSocial NetworkingSocial NetworkSocial Networking SitesNetworking Sites Author:Jimmy Fallon