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Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Freeze-Frame -Doc Childre.

As long as you can still be dissapointed, you are still young. -Sarah Churchill.

If a child annoys you, quiet him by brushing his hair. If this doesn't work, use the other side of the brush on the other end of the child.

We've had bad luck with our kids--they've all grown up.

There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother's age.

Prolifers support warwaging candidates whose bomber planes become partial birth abortionists.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.

What America needs is more young people who will carry to their jobs the same enthusiasm for getting ahead that they display in traffic. -M.A. Kelly.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

My mother loved children--she would have given anything if I had been one.

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it.".

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

I don't know any parents that look into the eyes of a newborn baby and say, How can we screw this kid up.

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.