Children are God’s way of letting us know His work will continue, even long after we are gone.

May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.

All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land.

If kids six and under eat free, then I’m an infant. Or at least infantile. Bring on the steaks.

To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

The miracle of children is that we just don’t know how they will change or who they will become.

When my children complain that I'm forgetful, I remind them that DAD is just ADD spelled sideways.

I figure when my husband comes home from work, if the kids are still alive, then I've done my job.

Eventually kids become grown-ups too, and from there, the world is whatever they choose to make of it.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself.

Before I got married I had six theories about raising children now I have six children and no theories