I really would like to work with kids if I was not a model.
Every year, once a year, in Maryland, I go for a week and overnight camp with about 50 to 60 kids with muscular dystrophy, all ages, seven to 21. And it is really fun. I have some great friends there and wonderful counselors.
The doctor said, 'He can't last a week.' And I did. And they said, 'There's no way this kid's going to last a month.' And I did. And so they said, 'Two years. He's not going to make it.' Two years. 'Five years. He can't do that.' I lived to be five years. 'He's never going to hit double digits.' And here I am, a new teenager.
I would always be the kid that got in trouble in school, that's for sure, for joking around.
I think having eight kids evens things out a bit. You learn about the world; you learn about the world; you learn you've got to get along. We're all - if anything - very adjustable.
I always thought that television was the way to go in my goal to invade pop culture because it got to towns in which there were no bookstores. That's how I used to think of it: How do I reach kids who not only don't read but probably have no access to much in the way of books?
Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.
Children should observe a regular schedule for sleeping and waking up.
Education for livelihood alone will never make our life full and complete.
The factor stringing together individuals, society and nature is missing from today's educational system. That factor is spiritual values.
Due to our preconceptions regarding education, we fail to inquire into the most obvious and wondrous field of study - ourselves.
Some parents let kids "learn on their own skin" and many of those kids end up, as adults, languishing on their parents' sofas.
I try to tell the kids, Im not trying to run away from where I came from.
Some of the best times I've spent in Colorado have been in the backcountry with my mom and siblings, and more recently, with my own kids. That is why I'm concerned to see today's kids spending more time browsing the Internet than exploring nature.
Stop worrying about whether they can handle it. You want the truth? Your kid is hardier than you are... Kids are tough.
Give your kids responsibility. Once outside, let them lead, who cares if you get lost; it might be the best trip you've ever had.
Everybody wants to be a professional baseball player and, sure, as a kid, I wanted to do that. But once I got cut from my high school team, I figured there wasn't much chance of that ever happening. I'm still in awe of it.
Single parents in particular may have trouble maintaining themselves as authority figures because of underlying guilt; they feel acontinuing sense that they have deprived their kids of the second parent, and so they tend to give in to the children's requests, even when unreasonable.
Our kids are not here to comfort us, to entertain us, or to validate us. Those things need to come from ourselves and from other adults.
It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.
Digital media enables us to build more stages for our kids to express themselves.
Its important that kids learn, but I really dont like all the testing, testing, testing.
That's my suggestion for kids who want to act, by the way: Make sure it's really your choice, get out of it when it stops being fun, and get an education.
The biggest thing you can give a kid is self-esteem, so that they're not shy to do different things.
I think the days are over where we were okay with bad guys just doing the pirate laugh and eating kids just for fun. There has to be a goal, you know? They have to have a point, and they have to make sense.
