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There's nothing like seeing the smile on my kids' faces. Laughing together. Playing. It's the best.

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get mos...

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Kids are more advanced these days. The teenage years now start at 11.

Kids didn't have huge backpacks when I was their age. We didn't have backpacks at all. Now it seemed...

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I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew...

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Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is ...

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We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a f...

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I do not remember asking adults about anything, except as a last resort.

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Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane

It's hard at times, but it makes a kid strong in ways that most people can't understand. Teaches the...

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I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be so and painted only the...

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While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in ...

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The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unio...

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I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,2...

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I'm happy to be at home with the kids, in my flannel pajamas; that's a treat.

A real prison breakfast" I said."Yeah, but we are free."And that summed it up.

A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom's generation, for my g...

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A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom's generation, for my g...

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A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom's generation, for my g...

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A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom's generation, for my g...

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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature...

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no, no, it's not all random, if it really was all random, the universe would abandon us completely. ...

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I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.

I got a statistic for you right now. Grab your pencil, Doug. There are five billion trees in the wor...

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I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all th...

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The reason there weren't any, I am surmising, is that a lot of Latin kids, Latino kids, in those day...

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I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted...

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You mean you live down here?' Matilda asked.'I do', Miss Honey replied, but she said no more.Matilda...

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Gin a body meet a bodyComing thro' the rye,Gin a body kiss a body— Need a body cry?

Mickey Mouse to a three-year-old is a six-foot-tall RAT!

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

I wonder if liberal kids call liberal talk shows and ask how to get along in a conservative teacher'...

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I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place ...

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My sister is running away to get lost, but I am running away because I want to find something. And m...

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Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Is it because I'm a girl?"Reluctantly, Bill nodded his head.She looked at him for a moment, her lips...

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To the champ, everything is serious business. I'm hoping that he'll live long enough to learn that i...

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stop now before i kill youa word to the wise from your friendPENNYWISE

I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with th...

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And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child be...

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Sydney J. HarrisThe Best of Sydney J. Harris

She who has the excellence of home virtues, and can expend within the means of her husband, is a hel...

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Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where...

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I will have to earn trust and respect from my kids.

My parents raised me that you never ask people about their reproductive plans. “You don’t know their...

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Sure, it's simple writing for kids…just as simple as bringing them up.

Oh, Hank," Susan whispered, "their wings are furry.""Oh, James," Harriet whispered, "their hands are...

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The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part ...

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I mean, I'm very serious with my kids about them comprehending the intricacies of global finance.

My mom used to call us 'free range kids,' like free range chickens... We roamed the countryside.

I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and wat...

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And if there's bad behaviour," Mma Potokwane went on. "If there's bad behaviour, the quickest way of...

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Alexander McCall SmithThe Good Husband of Zebra Drive

The more we want our children to be (1) lifelong learners, genuinely excited about words and numbers...

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We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being...

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Don't you kids get any ideas about dragging a trailer into the backyard. after you graduate from hig...

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I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw peop...

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Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would...

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We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a...

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Kids are hard -they drive you crazy and break your heart- whereas grandchildren make you feel great ...

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She was probably the girl I loved the most of all my girlfriends, but also the toughest one to make ...

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There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, t...

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Once I stand and watch helplessly while some rug rat pulls everything he can reach off the racks, an...

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Barbara EhrenreichNickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

I used to give X-ray vision a lot of thought because I couldn’t see how it could work. I mean, if yo...

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Bill BrysonThe Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

Parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!

I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here.

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I...

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I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

Team sports are very important for shaping personalities. It's important that kids understand the me...

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School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their prioriti...

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We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, th...

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Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have m...

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I'm not a figurehead for anything. I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It...

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I like to go to work, and also, I don't have any kids. I don't have any hobbies. I don't like to tra...

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I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't draw ...

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I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on ...

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Inspire them to want so much more than what's normal.

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

In fact, if our kids are successful in every normal way, they can still miss God's main mark.

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Teach your kids by modeling what you claim to believe.

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

She lay outside in the courtyard, staring up at the raindrops… feeling them hit her body… trying to ...

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I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes,...

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He’d never wanted kids. Outside of priority boarding on an airline, he couldn’t see the upside to th...

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Children are God’s or nature’s practical joke on couples—that which is produced by passion then proc...

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Dennis PragerHappiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual

Time does not really exist for mothers, with regard to their children. It does not matter greatly ho...

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No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's ...

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When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be help...

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Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid,...

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Kids shouting and skidding in the playground with no idea what future Hells awaited them: boring job...

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Donna TarttThe Goldfinch

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

I know what dissipate means, Arty. I'm not three, for heaven's sake.

All we can hope for is that he will fall into the ocean with a bar of soap in his pocket.

I am charging you with the protection of my mother and friends, not to mention keeping my younger se...

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Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishe...

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Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are u...

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If kids and teenagers can get into a band, it's probably not because they think it's brainy.

No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.

Just let them sit in the goddam sun. But the world won't let them because there's nothing more dange...

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I had my freedom, and I had my comfortable life, but I couldn't accept the fact that the politicians...

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If your kid needs a role model and you ain't it, you're both fucked.