#child

The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child. ↗

— Larry Elder

#age #before #child #finish #formula

Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives. ↗

— Larry Elder

#children #coming #divorced #father #financially

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. ↗

— Mark Twain

#children #contempt #familiarity #familiarity breeds

We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children. ↗

— Gloria Estefan

#aspirin #better #bottles #children #country

Educate yourself. Understand what you're dealing with. Then figure out how to fight it. Then figure out how to raise money for that fight. It'll help you cope. It'll help your child. ↗

— Boomer Esiason

#cope #dealing #educate #fight #figure

This is what I want. I want people to take care of me. I want them to force comfort upon me. I want the soft-pillow feeling that I associate with memories of being ill when I was younger, soft pillows and fresh linens and satin-edged blankets and hot chocolate. It's not so much the comfort itself as knowing there's someone who wants to take care of you. ↗

— Franny Billingsley

#comfort #family #love #nostalgia #wistful

I was never very good with either my hands or feet. It always seemed to me they'd just been stuck on as an afterthought during my making. Dreams didn't translate through sports, or music, dancing, carpentry, plumbing. I was the bookish kid, more at home in the pages of a fantasy than in the room in the town on the planet. ↗

— Steve Rasnic Tem

#carpentry #childhood #dancing #dreams #fantasy

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating. ↗

— Bob Filner

#best #better #childhood #diet #eating

However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry. ↗

— Bob Filner

#alone #children #control #dealing #educator

Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising. ↗

— Bob Filner

#children #even #indicate #less #likely