#child

You can make it if you try. Don't give up or quit the fight. If you believe, you will see, you can do it. ↗

— Robert Karl Hanson

#animation #cartoon #children-s-book #cute #kid-s-books

If you were my child, I would staple you to your bedroom wall. ↗

— Myra McEntire

#overprotectiveness #parents #safety #safety

Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves? ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#children #parents #ambition

Well I don’t know about you, but when I recall childhood pain, I don’t recall the pains of toothache, a thrashed backside, broken bones, stubbed toes, gashed knees or twisted ankles – I recall the pains of loneliness, boredom, abandonment, humiliation, rejection and fear. Those are the pains on which I might and, still sometimes do, dwell, and those pains, almost without exception, were inflicted on me by other children and by myself. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#boredom

Trauma does not have to occur by abuse alone... ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#psychologist #psychology #ptsd #recovery #research

Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory. ↗

— Russell Brand

#conformity #glory #rebellion #rebellion

Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality. ↗

— Iris Marion Young

#breastfeeding #breasts #children #feminism #motherhood

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#everything #expect #expected #nothing #obedience

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. ↗

— Helen Keller

#avoiding #children #danger #daring #does

When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children ↗

— Pat Conroy

#damage #divorce #divorce