When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television.
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
No, we don't own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.
Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
I serve on a lot of charitable boards - the areas of mental health parity, services for those that are underserved, and certainly children's rights are things that I believe in very, very strongly.
One of the most enjoyable things I do at Government House and when I travel around Australia is to talk with children. I tell them about our parliamentary democracy - and I often do that as I'm walking into an Executive Council meeting next door!
Children at certain ages have distinct actions, and boys at certain ages have a particular way of acting too.
Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.
When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life.
Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters.
Children are the most honest critics. They will say 'You're funny', but also 'You're pathetic - go away.'
God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.
Those who do not cherish affection for their parents, spouses and children and for their homes, villages and workplaces cannot love their country and fellow people; they can never become genuine patriots.
Children's authors have to pick words that reflect the spirit of a book and convey its message but also words that light children up, that children will recognize. Words that inspire and comfort. Words that challenge yet don't patronize. Words that, well, mean something to them.
This is not about Republican or Democrat. It is about our children, it's about our families, it is about our country, and frankly, ladies and gentlemen, it is about the world. We've got to leave here and march, and make sure Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are president and vice president of the United States.
I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.
The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.
If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first.
