We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve read more

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went read more

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them

Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.

Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

The easiest way to teach children the value of money is to borrow some from them

The easiest way to teach children the value of money is to borrow some from them