15,393 Quotes About Children

When parents as well as children are eating ‘kid food’, perhaps it’s time to call not something else. ‘Kid food’ started off as something separate and different from normal food. Now it is close to being the new normal for all age groups. The danger is that when adults have childish tastes too, it becomes very difficult for anyone to break the cycle and learn the pleasures of real food.

Someone said, 'It's all been done before.'Yes, I agreed, but we all have to say it in our own voice.

Be nice to your children. They may grow up to be writers.

In the tell-me-again times, (…) when my mom and I lived in a little apartment in a little building downtown, I slept in her bed. It was a raft on the ocean, a cloud, a forest, a spaceship, a cocoon that we shared. I could stretch out like a five-pointed star and then she'd bundle me back up in her arms. I'd wake in the morning tangled in her hair.

Children are more able to objectively synthesize a story involving vampires, monsters, or dragons due to the distance afforded by the fantastical elements than they are a story revolving around horrors committed by human beings.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.