15,393 Quotes About Children

The gendered expectations of parenting were dissolving, but even though women could be found working in creches now, there was still an enormous difference between the person who produced an egg and the person who cared for the little being that crawled out of it.

The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)

When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth

It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic coaching for his scholastic difficulties.

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?

He was taking a leap here, negotiating with a crackhead, under the table, in a dark cantina. The courage etched on his face came from loving Aidia so much he’d close his eyes and walk through fire to see her safe.

I really want to believe that when our Quiet Waters kids wake up in the middle of the night, scared, they’ll remember being in their bunks with John and Kate and Whit and me right there protecting them,” he said. “I hope we gave them that sense of belonging because I know there’ll be times in their lives when grasping at those bonds could mean the difference between making it and not.

I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious. I want them to understand it so that they will be positioned to make it a better place

Du kannst dir nicht vorstellen, wie sehr ich ringe um ein Quäntchen Schreiben, um einen Hauch Ich, nein, kannst Du nicht, auch wenn Du vieles kannst, das wird Dir nicht gelingen- doch nachts die Nase an mein duftendes, winziges neues Söhnchen zu halten und so einzuschlafen, wer will das ersetzen?