When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs.
The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.
Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively.
If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.
The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film.
The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards, all of them look like droopy-eyed armless children.
I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?
You remember all those phrases about how "these people" - Asians - don't value human life like we do. Well if you spend any time around them, you discover that they love their children just as much as we love ours. That is certainly true of the Vietnamese.
I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children.
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself.
When school children start paying union dues, that 's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.