There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.

When I was a child, I had it in my head to play in the Champions League and win it.

If a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible.

So many people struggle to have children and it's not unusual to go down a slightly different path if you need to.

Personally, I'd like as many children as I can pop out, I reckon.

Yeah, I was a child of American popular culture.

Studies have proven that early childhood education returns to society as much as $12 for every dollar invested. Our goal is to identify the most important development opportunities for children five years and younger, providing insight to transform early childhood education from a social policy issue into an economic imperative.

In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's!

It's hard for anybody who works a lot and has children. But I wouldn't trade it for anything.

My whole childhood, I'd been dreaming of this two-point-four children, living in the country - everything was just going to fall into place, and I'd be this perfect mum. And it didn't happen. I was very shocked and disappointed.

At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

When you're making a decision that involves your children a certain amount of clarity comes with it.

Children will often write, 'We love your books because there are no adults in them.'

As my children leave the protected parameters of the bay called childhood and enter the wavier seas of adolescence, I'm starting to get seasick.

When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.

If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.

'Lives' is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material - and after that, you're not sure what you can do.

We know that childhood and adolescence are the most crucial times for environmental stimuli to affect breast cancer risk, but changes made during adulthood and even after diagnosis still have the potential to create positive changes in the body.

Quality educational care grows resilient children, provides support for working families and stability for employers, makes Georgia more competitive, and invests in the workforce of the future, beginning in early childhood.