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I have studied the child. I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it and that is what is called the Montessori method.
Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend.
I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in.
I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.
Yes, I was the child who would sneak into her closet and read 'Nancy Drew' for hours after the designated 'lights out' time of night.
My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.
Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity.
I'm concerned that boys have become politically incorrect, that we are a society in the process of turning against its male children.
Having children can be such a gift, but it can be a crushing experience for a certain kind of mom. And I am that certain kind of mom.
As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.
That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.
Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, or whoever condemns me therein, he condemns God and must remain a child of hell.
No one aspires as a child to grow up and enter into a domestic partnership. But they do aspire as children to grow up and be married.
I wanted to create a place where parents can come and find products that are safe for their children, as well as good for the planet.
We must teach our children that the real measure of their success in life is how much they'd be worth if they had absolutely nothing.
Sometimes parents, when they have a lot of small children, it's hard because your time's got to get divvied up. There's no other way.
If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.
India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it.
If in so many parts of the world there are children who have nothing to eat, that's not news, it seems normal. It cannot be this way!
A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new
The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.
I would just like my children to be able to eat fish when they grow up. Now, I don't think there's anything controversial about that.
One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.
It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought, sooner or later becomes an adult.
For my part, I try to do my bit to make people's lives more bearable, in particular children across the globe who are having problems.
Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.
Every child has the spirit of creation. The rubbish of life often exterminates the spirit through plague and a souls own wretchedness.
When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.
Remember that your ultimate goal is for your children to grow up secure in your love, strong in their faith, and with sound character.
Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day.
I think that it's our responsibility to create a world in which girls can grow up and not have to limit their dreams or possibilities.
No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work.
I was pretty much a child of Monty Python. I grew up loving that type of humor and even structured a lot of humor in the same fashion.
Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble.
The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world.
How sociable the garden was. We ate and talked in given light. The children put their toys to grass All the warm wakeful August night.
We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.
Walking by faith will cause all of us to recognize that as children of God we are just pilgrims and strangers down here on this earth.
I'm going to let people know that it's cool to have a child and be young and still be a good mom. It's really tough, but I'm doing it.
People like to say their songs are like children, but you gotta get those kids out there so they can make some money and pay the rent.
You are who God says you are. Spiritually alive. Heavenly positioned. Connected to the Father. A billboard of mercy. An honored child.
Like Adam, formed from clay, children are formed from the biological material of which they are made or by the hands of their parents.
Don't we have to respond to people who don't seem normal to us? Will my child grow up able to accept that not everyone looks the same?
I wouldn't want to play Miss Hannigan. I'm not a villain. She's mean to little children! I can't do that. That would disrupt my brand.
To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
Parents teach their children to look both ways when crossing the street. They tell them to look only one way when choosing a religion.
Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.