Nic was a lovely child, though of course I'm prejudiced. I'm his father.
The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.
Much of the criticism centered around Betsy DeVos focuses on her lack of experience with public schools. While she has shown some interest in 'protecting' students from the non-existent threat of grizzlies wandering onto their campuses, she has never run, taught in, attended, or sent a child to a public school.
My relationship with my first child was nonexistent. I was broke and I was a new rapper whose career was spiraling downward.
I come from a part of Nigeria where a lot of value is placed on implicit communication. The 'well brought up' child is the one who can pick up nonverbal cues from adults and interpret them correctly.
My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia.
As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.
A nanny, by being the child's doughty defender, may put sensitive noses out of joint.
We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
There are so many factors to lead to a child becoming obese.
I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
As a child, I perceived my mother as an old woman.
I didn't really know anything about Margot Fonteyn. I'd never really been a ballet child, so I had no idea what an incredibly huge icon she was, not just in terms of a creative icon - she was also a style icon. I had no idea she was up there with Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Onassis in terms of that kind of image.
No Child Left Behind taught us that parents, teachers and state and local leaders are more suited to address students' needs than a one-size-fits-all accountability system developed by Washington bureaucrats.
I'm a weirdo and an only child. That comes together to create one-woman shows.
I was an only child.
I was 28 when my father died, and I was an only child.
I have an only child. She's so independent and good with adults.
I'm an only child.
