The dolls helped us immensely. When we first arrived in Kuwait and then Iraq, people ran from us. They hid from us. But when we began giving the children candy and then the Beanie Babies, we started to form a bond with them. When the women saw we were not there to harm their children, but to help them, that made all the difference.
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Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system.
It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.
This is my equivalent of children. These guys are holding it together.
He was not there doing crime. He was not there doing drugs. He was there trying to help a group of children.
Think about it seriously. If you don't stay on top of it, you could harm your children. It takes dedication and willingness to do it and stick with it.
We all believe it's important to have well-educated children. Those are the areas we want to focus on.
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
Mothers and fathers will have the certainty of knowing that whatever their background, high-quality early years education and childcare services will be available to support them and their children.
For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children.
All revolutions devour their own children.
Children who are just born. It's wonderful to read slowly to them and sing with them and so forth. All that makes a difference,
It's everywhere. Guns and violence are in every nook and cranny of America. Many children can get a gun quicker than they can get a book out of the library. That puts us all at risk.
A rabbi should not despair if people do not do as much as they should. Every parent has that with children. God is merciful.
There is simply no moral, ethical or social justification for marketing junk food to children. Children have a right to grow up, and parents have the right to raise them, without being undermined by commercial interests.
There's an orgy of self-congratulation in India, but it's ashamed of the way it treats its children.
Early-onset depression is thought to begin in the teenage years but in fact it is turning out to be as early as we can begin to measure it. We ought to be thinking much more about who are the children who already have these disorders.
Until I separated from Parker, I had never been without them-and it's the hardest thing to share them. But we're trying to give the children the semblance of having whole lives.
Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
The main reason children don't tell their parents what is going on is because the kids are afraid they will get in trouble. Kids stop listening when they're being lectured or yelled at adults do too, nobody likes it. A realistic presentation of facts and good listening skills are what is needed, along with follow-up at a later time to make sure your points got across and continue to have value for the children.
I've never met their mother, but there is something good that is evident that she passed on. They are kind children, so bless her.
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life
We noticed the school district was getting hammered with children, so we devised a plan that is age-restrictive.
Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
We can change the lives of autistic children. We can make a difference. There are hundreds of families in Florida who can't afford the therapists.
This ruling upholds California's authority to enforce tough restrictions on handing out free cigarettes, particularly in places where children are present.
the confidentiality and denial of access laws ... more often than not fail to serve the overall, long-term best interests of children.
We can act now ... or we can just bury our heads in the sand, ... It is not good policy to pass this problem on to our children. It's not fair and it's not right.
There will probably be some double-takes as she's obviously the Miss Hoolie the children have seen on television.They'll be like 'why aren't you on stage
The poem is common-sense relationships. It's really what it is, ... All the lines are different relationships and if you look at it, you'll see that. Honesty and truth are relationships. If you're honest with your children, they learn truth, you see. Or if you're truthful with them, they learn honesty. They're just a few that are a jump like, acceptance equals love,' but they are really just common knowledge.
What parents should do, ... is change the types of food they keep in the house and give (children) more opportunities for physical activity so children can eat as much as they want and play how they want.
So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them.
When you're working in Hollywood you have these actors who go to their trailers, they're getting paid millions of dollars, they act like spoiled children. They don't really want to work. And the crew knows that. They don't respect them, ... Jamie Foxx is the antithesis of that.
Nationwide, one of 100 children are born with congenital heart disease and the mortality rate is up to 9 percent. Over a five-year period, our mortality rate is 0 percent.
We need to stop the war in Iraq, we need to bring our troops home immediately. We need to see George Bush and the rest of them tried for crimes against humanity. We need justice for our children.
The problem is we always thought we could do it all We could become president of Chase Manhattan bank and then have our five children, ... It doesn't work that way ... because, unfortunately, this time clock is real.
Our bus drivers have a lot to do on a regular basis, trying to provide for a safe environment for the children, and things aren't getting easier for them as more traffic comes along. But on the other hand there's that possibility that because they're on a route every single day that if something changes they might recognize it before somebody else does.
We'd like to try to have at least two children. Seeing how happy my wife is and how happy I am and how healthy the baby is, we'd like to try again.
As you see on the side of the pack, the Surgeon General says these things are dangerous to your health. We're trying to instill good health habits in the children and let them know this is not a good thing for them. Its something that we wanted to do right away.
Children can only take so much, and they deal with it however they can.
At the toughest times I recalled how the children and the elderly looked at me with trustful eyes. Your faith has given me strength.
The key to success with young children is keeping expectations low. Eating together with a 2-year-old is a brief affair, but by 4 a child can sit longer, share information, and listen to someone else. The younger children are when you start this, the more it becomes part of what you do as a family. Over time, it becomes a haven within the family, ... The meal itself becomes symbolic of what a family does for its members You nourish each other.
The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
I had two children. I had a nanny to manage my kids.
If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
I wish I could anticipate some of the stories and lies that will be told. It's going to be great to get everyone together so we can tell all of the families, all of the wives and children, just how good we were because they never got to see us play.
I am running for President of the United States to enable the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and all the children of the world.
History tells us more than we want to know about what is wrong with man, and we can hardly turn a page in the daily press without learning the specific time, place, and name of evil. But perhaps the most pervasive evil of all rarely appears in the news. This evil, the waste of human potential, is particularly painful to recognize for it strikes our parents and children, our friends and brothers, ourselves.