{"quotes":[{"text":"This not how you hide, Corin!","author":"Tamar Bobokhidze","tags":["baby-animal","baby-animal-stories","children","cute","daycare","early-learning","growing-up","hide-and-seek","picture-book","preschool","sharing","sharing-is-caring","social-behavior","toddler"],"id":81732,"author_id":"Tamar+Bobokhidze"},{"text":"The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed.","author":"John Green","tags":["sun","toddler"],"id":90348,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"Albert Einstein was never clear if he believed in time travel, but had he raised a toddler, he certainly would have.","author":"Michael R. French","tags":["albert-einstein","children","einstein","parenting","parenting","raising-a-toddler","they-grow-up-fast","time-flies","time-travel","toddler"],"id":176680,"author_id":"Michael+R.+French"},{"text":"The toddler craves independence, but he fears desertion.","author":"Dorothy Corkille Briggs","tags":["fears","toddler","he "],"id":216762,"author_id":"Dorothy+Corkille+Briggs"},{"text":"It’s Ms. Hilda’s magic drawer! That’s where Ms. Hilda finds everything we need. Crayons, papers, glitters, candies, everything!","author":"Tamar Bobokhidze","tags":["baby-animal","baby-animal-stories","candies","children","crayons","cute","daycare","early-learning","glitters","growing-up","magic-drawer","papers","picture-book","preschool","sharing","sharing-is-caring","social-behavior","toddler"],"id":280055,"author_id":"Tamar+Bobokhidze"},{"text":"Our parents would not be ‘The best parents in the world’ (to us) if they were not our parents.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","baby","birth","child","children","funny","humor","humour","infant","newborn","offspring","parent","parenthood","parenting","parents","pregnancy","of-the-day","quoteoftheday","satire","toddler"],"id":312989,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"You need your rest to feel your best!","author":"Brandi Russell","tags":["gift","nap-time","sleep","toddler"],"id":323474,"author_id":"Brandi+Russell"},{"text":"In my experiences, the common critic of Christianity, when he thinks of Christianity, imagines a sort of elementary, Sunday School blunder of elements: fiery Hell, an angry God, 'try not to sin', 'be good so that you can go to Heaven', absurd miracles, hyper-fundamentalist tales, religious hypocrites, and Jesus telling people not to judge. There is no horse more dead than such. I maintain that understanding Christianity and the Bible is quite like painting a piece of art. Let a toddler paint a puppy; then let an adult who is a long-time painter paint the very same puppy. They are both paintings of the puppy, but one is far more detailed, rational, realistic, and believable than the other. One is distorted and comical; the other is proportional and lively. One can write off Theology if he so pleases, but he might not be very wise in using the toddler's painting when it comes time to identify the real puppy or when trying to confront actual men of the Faith.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["agnosticism","analogy","apologetics","appeal-to-ridicule","argumentation","art","atheism","belief","belief-in-god","christianity","criticism","dead-horse","faith","fallacies","fundamentalism","god","heaven","hell","hypocrisy","immaturity","irrational","jesus","judgment","logic","logical-fallacies","maturity","metaphor","miracles","painting","philosophy","puppy","rational","religion","religious-fundamentalism","sin","skepticism","spiritual-maturity","spirituality","sunday-school","theism","theology","toddler","unbelief","understanding"],"id":370754,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"If Mom is convinced that ballet lessons are a must, she shouldtake them.Although it may look odd to see a thirty-year old woman hang- ing onto a bar and flinging a slightly plump leg in the air, the sight is not as pathetic as seeing her seven-year old daughter grimly going through such motions just to please her mother, when she would prefer to be at home designing new doll clothes.Although some parents are never quite ready to accept this fact, the child is not one of our possessions. We don’t own him; we never will. We gave birth to his body; he may share some of our physical characteristics; but he does not inherit our desires.He’s a different person, a separate entity, with his own likes and dislikes.It’s a grave mistake to try to override a child’s power of choice in what he wants to be and do. Some parents do this in an attempt to live their lives through the child.","author":"Ruth Minshull","tags":["children","common-sense","infant","newborn","parenthood","parenting","toddler"],"id":402261,"author_id":"Ruth+Minshull"},{"text":"Although every person makes mistakes, not every mistake makes a person.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["abort","abortion","child","children","condom","condoms","contraception","family","gestation","infant","miscarriage","mistake","mistakes","preggers","pregnancy","toddler"],"id":414012,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}