Children
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Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.
Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
We have created a society where individual rights and freedoms, compassion and diversity are core to our citizenship. But underlying that idea of Canada is the promise that we all have a chance to build a better life for ourselves and our children.
Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.
The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself.
My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
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