Babe

Gift

“If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.”


-Bruce Barton

Floating In Monet Waters

Artist: Jennifer Short

Chinese Proverb

'One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade.'

Everglades

Babies

“A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.”

- Carl Sandburg

Bootblacks

- NY City - 1896"

Safe

Priorities

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


-Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Morning

Priorities

“The work will wait while you show your child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work.”



-Patricia Clafford

Soul

A Mystery

"There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger"

Agatha Christie

The Goat

The Thunderstorm

One summer evening during a violent thunderstorm a mother was tucking her small boy into bed. She was about to turn off the light when he asked with a tremor in his voice, "Mommy, will you sleep with me tonight?" The mother smiled and gave him a reassuring hug. "I can't dear," she said. " I have to sleep with Daddy." A long silence was broken at last by his shaking little voice, "The big sissy."

Hug

A Mother

“The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.”

[Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh]

Like Little Red Riding Hood

Advise From Kids

1. Never trust a dog to watch your food. - Patrick, age 10
2. When your dad is mad and asks you, Do I look stupid? don't answer him. - Michael, 14

3. Never tell your mom her diet's not working. - Michael, 14

4. Stay away from prunes. - Randy, 9

5. Never pee on an electric fence. - Robert, 13

6. Don't squat with your spurs on. - Noronha, 13

7. Don't pull dad's finger when he tells you to. - Emily, 10

8. When your mom is mad at your dad, don't let her brush your hair. - Taylia, 11

9. Never allow your three-year old brother in the same room as your school assignment. - Traci, 14

10. Never hold a dust buster and a cat at the same time.- Kyoyo, 9

11. You can't hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk.- Armir, 9

12. Felt markers are not good to use as lipstick. - Lauren, 9

13. Don't pick on your sister when she's holding a baseball bat.- Joel, 10

14. When you get a bad grade in school, show it to your mom when she's on the phone. - Alyesha, 13

15. Never try to baptize a cat. - Eileen, 8

The Race

“A hundred years from now ...

....it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.”

[Forest E. Witcraft]

Dreams

God

A kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they drew. She would occasionally walk around to see each child's artwork. As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was. The girl replied,"I'm drawing God." The teacher paused and said, "But no one knows what God looks like." Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl replied, "They will in a minute."

Autumn

Misquote

'Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.'

~Author Unknown

Play

Yes Miss!

The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture. "Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say, 'There's Jennifer; she's a lawyer,' or 'That's Michael; he's a doctor.'" A small voice at the back of the room rang out, "And there's the teacher; she's dead."

Flowers

Worry

' We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. '

~Stacia Tauscher

Photography By ...

Musin Yohan

Billy Brown

An honest seven-year-old admitted calmly to her parents that Billy Brown had kissed her after class. "How did that happen?," gasped her mother. "It wasn't easy," admitted the young lady, "but three girls helped me catch him."

Grace

Image by Nina Kande

1762

' You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again. '

~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762

Denim

Momma, how come?

One day, a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do the dishes at the kitchen sink. She suddenly noticed that her mother has a few strands of white hair sticking out in contrast on her brunette head. She looked at her mother and asked, "Why are some of your hairs white, Mom?" Her mother replied, "Well, every time you do something wrong, and make me cry or unhappy, one of my hairs turns white." The little girl thought about this revelation for while and then said, "Momma, how come ALL of grandma's hairs are white?"

Art

Sisters

Lesson

'While we try to teach our children all about life,Our children teach us what life is all about.'

~Angela Schwindt

Tre Beau Portrait

Kittens

A three-year-old went with his dad to see a litter of kittens. When returning home, he breathlessly informed his mother that there were two boy kittens and two girl kittens. "How do you know this?" his mother asked. "Daddy picked them up and looked underneath," he replied. "I think it's printed on the bottom."

Play

Mmmmm

'You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.'

~Franklin P. Jones

09

God

A kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of childrenwhile they drew. She would occasionally walk around to see eachchild's artwork. As she got to one little girl who was workingdiligently, she asked what the drawing was. The girl replied,"I'm drawing God." The teacher paused and said, "But no one knowswhat God looks like." Without missing a beat, or looking up fromher drawing, the girl replied, "They will in a minute."

Cherries

sleep

'There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.'

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mirror

Brothers

A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments withher five and six year olds. After explaining the commandment to"honor thy Father and thy mother," she asked the kids, "Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers andsisters?" Without missing a beat one little boy (the oldest of afamily) answered, "Thou shall not kill."

Watching

Failure

'If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.'

~Pearl S. Buck