15,393 Quotes About Children

Little kids are that way; they feel if their parents aren't watching what they do then what they do isn't real.

Kids are resilient. They understand way (WAY) more than adults give them credit for, and they pick up on unspoken cues when things aren’t explicitly expressed to them.

I was ten when Mike Smiley, half-Indian, skinny, brown-skinned, brought the word jigaboo to schoollike lunch, or the flu,fed him by his adopted white father who saidthat's what we calledthem then. By noon it was done--everyone had a name for what had beenbothering them, some thing utterly humanas hate.

Time is mercurial when you’re with children. A whole morning making pancakes and playing freeze tag goes by in a minute, whereas waiting for Jasper to tie his shoes or catch up on his bike is endless.

if children weren’t so childish,i’d have childrenbut that doesn’t even matteri love children but i don’t want to acc have any

I'll do what I can, when I can," thought Eva, patting the little fox." Now, that isn't interfering, is it, my precious! laughed Eva, lounging back in the armchair as if she had just put the whole world, at least, her little world, Alaska to rights.

It was mind boggling to know that I would experience such betrayal at such a young age while others live their whole life without knowing what betrayal is

As a society, we denounce "delinquents," "hoodlums" and "hooligans," but the truth is that we routinely fail troubled kids before they fail us. More children die each year in the United States from abuse and neglect than from cancer. For every child who dies, thousands are injured, raped or brutally abused. We shrug as millions of children undergo trauma in ways that harm them and unravel our social fabric--and then we blame the kids when things go wrong.

A blessed home is not a home full of kids, but a home where there is peace, harmony and understanding.