The Lives of a Child

Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.

Robert L Ehrlich

Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs. The ones you accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile, and who love you you no matter what.
Unknown

It's too bad that 90 % of brain development doesn't begin after our 40s... makes more sense to me! If nothing else, "kids" should begin university after they turn 40!
Me

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. 
Ogden Nash

Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are referee.

David Frost  I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.' Erma Bombeck   The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be. Fred G. Gosman,

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. 
Stacia Tauscher

 In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.  
Friedrich Nietzche

A father is God's gift to every child, children need the very basics to grow into fine youth just give them all the Love you can.

 Malika E Nura 

How We Treat Our Children

"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."
  Nelson Mandela, 

Some of the stories that I read or hear in the news are just heartbreaking!  

This Afternoon's Quote... What Goes On In the Mind of a Child?

"Who knows the thoughts of a child?"
Norma Perry

What made me think about this is the fact that we have a four year old granddaughter and the stuff that she comes up with can be hilarious!  She recently said that her granddad wasn't pretty... because he's a boy. She also has an amazing memory.  Because we didn't get to see her very often we always went to the dollar store and picked up about ten items that she could unwrap.  She was so young... we never dreamed that she would remember and the last time  we visited (a year later), she asked if we had anything for her to unwrap!  Good thing that we did lol!

I would love to get inside of her head just to see what she is thinking about!!

What Kids Think of Us!

Children have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with the kind of respect we are so confident it ought to be given. To the irritation of authority figures of all sorts, children expend considerable energy in "clowning around." They refuse to appreciate the gravity of our monumental concerns, while we forget that if we were to become more like children our concerns might not be so monumental.
Conrad Hyers

Quotes About Children

Words seem to play a huge part in our lives. We see a quote that we like and we instantly snip it out of the magazine and save it so that we can read it again. Some are inspirational, some of them make us laugh, some remind of us of ourselves. Whatever the reason, we are drawn to words that have been linked together. We can learn so much from them. In fact, a quote can change our lives or our way of thinking for at least a short amount of time. I have chosen some of my favorite quotes that I want to share.

 I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring.
Liz Armbruster

The love of children inspires an interest in the welfare of all humanity.
James Lendall Basford

Children are one third of our population and all of our future.
Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981


Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
Fran Lebowitz

When I hear people talk about juggling, or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at them like they're crazy, because 'sacrifice' infers that there was something better to do than being with your children.
Chris Rock

The guys who fear becoming fathers don’t understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child-raising is not the child but the parent.
Frank Pittman

 While we try to teach our children all about life,
Our children teach us what life is all about.
Angela Schwindt

 A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.  
Bill Vaughan

 If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.
 Dave Barry

 "Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home."
 Bill Cosby

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'
Erma Bombeck

 I hope you will stop by to take a peek at some of my other quotes, the good, the bad and the ugly lol!

This mornings Quote about Creativity

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."

George Bernard Shaw

A Quote About Your IMportance to a Child

A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.”

Forest E. Witcraft

Kind of puts everything into perspective doesn't it!