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I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon. - Ida B. Wells
Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.
We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.
We as a nation need to be reeducated about the necessary and sufficient conditions for making human beings human. We need to be reeducated not as parents--but as workers, neighbors, and friends; and as members of the organizations, committees, boards--and, especially, the informal networks that control our social institutions and thereby determine the conditions of life for our families and their children.
Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving. ― Charles Eastman
I don't have any kids of my own, quite by choice. There are two reasons for that. One, I had a sense of obligation for what my life would be and a vision of how to get that accomplished and it didn't include children. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that if you have them, they deserve 100 per cent of your attention.
Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them.
Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.
As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of times [what] saved me.
Tonight's December thirty-first, something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!
