Never play peekaboo with a child on a long plane trip. There’s no end to the game. Finally I grabbed him by the bib and said, “Look, it’s always gonna be me!”
Children Quotes
Judicious mothers will always keep in mind, that they are the first book read, and the last put aside, in every child’s library.
I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them.
Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is; and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural.
Give a little to love a child, and you get a great deal back.
Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth.
Love, children, and work are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.
We can’t all leave a prestigious background or lots of money to visit our children, but we can leave them a legacy of love.
I can remember, at the age of five, being told that childhood was the happiest period of life (a blank lie, in those days). I wept inconsolably, wished I were dead, and wondered how I should endure the boredom of the years to come.
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it better.
