Your children's losing battle with time seems even sadder than your own.

She remembered home as a place where there were always too many children, a cross man and work piling up around a sick woman.

Children are too often unkind to one another, and deny the allowance they so much need in their own case.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

It’s not nice to think of children growing up like mushrooms, in the dark.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Her mother’s humpf mixed contempt with frustration. “You just don’t understand anything, do you? We try to bring up our children so that they are protected from the world’s evils, only to find we’ve raised a pack of innocents who seem to be about to stumble into them at every turn just from sheer stupidity!”

It is said that the children of the very poor are not brought up, but dragged up.

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework — an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self- sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Children express intense dissatisfaction with the traditional arrangement of every other weekend.

If pupils suffer from attention disorders, stress and low grades, perhaps we ought to blame outdated teaching methods, overcrowded classrooms and an unnaturally fast tempo of life.

And as children get older, the structure of the school day becomes even more out of sync with the natural rhythms of children and adolescents.

All your children are poor unfortunate victims of systems beyond their control

Often, kids don’t appreciate the choices available, as if it’s either the street or nothing.