that a child is not an event, alleged or otherwise, a mistake or accident or crime. . . he is by definition more than this, sum rather than division, a living promissory note.
John Burnham SchwartzTags: love children growth parenting
Remember when only a few people had mobile phones. Generally regarded as an object of derision, you would occasionally see business types clutching those ridiculous grey bricks to their faces and mutter to yourself 'what a prick.' Nowadays, an eyebrow hardly even flutters when we see a ten-year-old child happily texting away. You probably wouldn't notice anyway; you'd be too busy downloading an app that could definitively pinpoint who it was that had just farted in your tube carriage.
Simon PeggTags: humor society children technology cellphones
I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.
Philip LarkinTags: art poetry children youth poem poet letters-to-monica philip-larkin
You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.
The family economy evades calculation in the gross planetary product. It's the only deal I know where, when you give more than you get, you aren't bankrupted - but rather, vastly enriched.
Tags: family parents children debt economy
I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way.
Joe HillTags: children parenting parental-love
Bērni acīs neskatās divos gadījumos: tad, kad pats ir nepatiess, un tad, kad otrs - lielais ir nepatiess.
Imants ZiedonisTags: children
I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape.
'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.
Tags: children cows l-m-montgomery
Thinking over this thought, this whole thinking makes no sense.
JanoschTags: children fun sense-of-humor
Nothing's really changed since then, except that now any children we have might be wizards themselves, and I'll be hopelessly outnumbered.
Eilis O'NealTags: humor love children marriage
The fact is that Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable-even legally actionable-to Westerners. Chinese mothers can say to their daughters, "Hey fatty-lose some weight." By contrast, Western parents have to tiptoe around the issue, talking in terms of "health" and never ever mentioning the f-word, and their kids still end up in therapy for eating disorders and negative self image.
Amy ChuaTags: children health chinese parenting mindsets
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