Robert Owen Quotes

I think day care is terrific. Kids get to be around other kids, and they're playing, and they're teaching each other. When I was in college, my summer job was being a preschool teacher. I loved it, and after that experience, I said I can't wait to put my kid in day care because I could see how much they loved it.

I just happen to believe that what's at stake in the early child's development is so vital and so important, and I think it is founded in the main, in the broad cultural sense, on the relationship between the mother and child.

Education, day care, health care—there's not a parent in the country that doesn't have a stake in one of these issues.

Early childhood education packs a real wallop in terms of the return on the investment.

Lot of things depend on the up bringing of a child.

Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems.

Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.

Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential.

Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.

Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.

I think it's so important in preschool and in kindergarten and elementary school that we're not biasing ourselves.

Middle-class families know education begins at birth.

There's increasing evidence on both sides of the Atlantic that when babies, beginning in the first or even the second year of life, spend long hours in childcare centers and maybe even with child minders, that as they go to school they're more likely to be more aggressive and disobedient than are other children.… that seems to be the case even when they've been, if you would, in better quality or good quality nurseries and child minder settings.

If you're going to send the mothers out into the work force, what are you going to do about the children they leave at home?

[Referring to day care:] We don't have nearly all the options people want.

This bringing up of children is so blithely undertaken by many of us, and the vast majority have had no training. It is one of those professions that every woman thinks she can undertake, so nobody really prepares for it.

Becoming a mom makes politics real. Whether it's education policies, health care policies, family leave - it informs your decision-making.

If we buy a plant of a horticulturist we ask him many questions as to its needs, whether it thrives best in sunshine or in shade, whether it needs much or little water, what degrees of heat or cold; but when we hold in our arms for the first time a being of infinite possibilities, in whose wisdom may rest the destiny of a nation, we take it for granted that the laws governing its life, health, and happiness are intuitively understood, that there is nothing new to be learned in regard to it.

No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock.

I love children. I'm embarrassingly baby-crazy.

As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.

Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn.

Every child should be given a strong start to their education.

Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals.

My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'