We were having a sleepover when I was eight or nine, and we all got to stay up late and watch the original 'Frankenstein.' It was uncensored, so as a child, I saw the scene where he throws the little girl into the lake, and that freaked me out. Though not as much as when he hangs the hunchback.
There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new hope and a new responsibility for all.
I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.
One of the most important gifts a parent can give a child is the gift of accepting that child's uniqueness.
Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.
The child who acts unlovable is the child who most needs to be loved.
It is never acceptable for us to be the cause of any child to feel unloved or worthless.
There's not a mom or dad that wants to leave their child unprotected.
There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share.
There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.
I was in therapy as a child and definitely think that therapy is a very useful tool.
We didn't really have vacations when I was a child.
As for mercury, a child will almost certainly get more mercury exposure from her immediate environment than from vaccination. This is true, too, of the aluminum that is often used as an adjuvant in vaccines to intensify the immune response.
Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.
I had read the 'Wonder Woman' comic books when I was a child; I was much more interested in those than I was in 'Betty and Veronica,' even though I liked those as well.
Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's.
My dad was an alcoholic, growing up, so I knew how scary that was from a child's perspective - the volatility.
You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
As a child, I used to spend nearly all my summer holidays with my aunt in Wales, and we used to catch mackerel in a boat and then cook them on board.
Before I had a child, I had goals. And I still have to accomplish those goals, but now that I have a child, I have more goals to accomplish. So I can't waste time.
