15,393 Quotes About Children

In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer’s yard.

As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men,For they are women's children, and we mother them again.Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses!

The fact that millions of children every year can learn to like chilli offers hope to us all; that our next bite can be different from the first.

If you want your children to eat better, don’t tell them what to do; eat better yourself.

Most of our approaches to feeding children are too short term. We worry about the next five minutes when we should worry about the next five years.

Of all the foods that we could give a child a free rein over, cereal makes the least sense. Parents let children choose cereal but dictate which vegetables they eat; it should be the other way around.

It is possible for children to learn and improve their eating skills in ways that will automatically lead them to a healthier diet.

The way we reward children with food is based on folk memories of a food supply that has not existed in the West for decades, when white sugar was so rare it seemed to sparkle like snow.

They had laid the tender, down-ruffled little bird on a platter and appeared now to be pondering a way to eat out its heart without causing it distress.