She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''.

Was it not possible, after all, that the forest was in league with her and her child that its sympathy lay with the Culvers that she had erred in failing to understand this??

In time she presents her aristocratic husband with a coal-black child.

Sibylla is pregnant with their second child when she finds the ivory tablet concealed by her husband, and the identities of mother and son are revealed.

`` You do not know me '', she said in good English, `` but my mother was your governess in Philadelphia when you were a child ''.

We don't think she can make her child defective, emotionally disturbed or autistic.

The mother of a difficult child can do a great deal to help her own child and often, by sharing her experiences, she can help other mothers with the same problem.

Through the swathings of terror, she jabbed deceit's sharp point -- Amy would be reborn, a new child, with new parents, living under new circumstances.

His Mary would be slender of limb and delicate of proportion, yet she must hold this full-grown man as securely and convincingly as she would a child.

When he told her God had called the child to Him, she rejected his words rebelliously.

The bodice beneath was buttoned and, withdrawing his lips from hers, he set her upright on his knee and started to undo it, unhurriedly as if she were a child.

Her hair was dyed, and her bloom was fading, and she must have been crowding forty, but she seemed to be one of those women who cling to the manners and graces of a pretty child of eight.

`` Your wife just called '', she said, separating one word from another, exactly like a child.

Or perhaps she hears words or sounds: `` There's such a noise of loud machinery '', or `` I hear a child crying '', or `` He says we're all here and glad to see you ''.

`` Evadna Mae Evans said she didn't put a thing on her child but a flannel wrapper until it was nine months old ''.

It was so pretty and artless that she felt like a child again and would have enjoyed running out barefoot to play on the wet grass with all the growing things, but Doaty never permitted bare feet and she was decidedly not a child but une femme d'un certain age.

She smiled and bowed, recalling the princess-in-a-carriage feeling she had enjoyed when she was a child.

A few months before Augustus ’ death in 14, the emperor wrote and sent a letter to Agrippina mentioning how Caligula must be future emperor because at that time, no other child had this name.

He began writing as a child and wrote constantly.

His drinking and poor health reinforced his fears, as he wrote in the third person, " Ever since he was a child he had hated marriage.

Elizabeth's first Lady Mistress, Margaret, Lady Bryant, wrote that she was " as toward a child and as gentle of conditions as ever I knew any in my life ".

The Emperor wrote that Francis was " stunted in growth ", " backward in bodily dexterity and deportment ", and " neither more nor less than a spoiled mother's child ".

He appointed a commission that set aside 3, 000, 000 acres ( 12, 000 km² ) of national parks and 2, 300, 000 acres of national forests ; advocated tax reduction for low-income Americans ( not enacted ); closed certain tax loopholes for the wealthy ; doubled the number of veterans ' hospital facilities ; negotiated a treaty on St. Lawrence Seaway ( which failed in the U. S. Senate ); wrote a Children's Charter that advocated protection of every child regardless of race or gender ; created an antitrust division in the Justice Department ; required air mail carriers to adopt stricter safety measures and improve service ; proposed federal loans for urban slum clearances ( not enacted ); organized the Federal Bureau of Prisons ; reorganized the Bureau of Indian Affairs ; instituted prison reform ; proposed a federal Department of Education ( not enacted ); advocated $ 50-per-month pensions for Americans over 65 ( not enacted ); chaired White House conferences on child health, protection, homebuilding and home-ownership ; began construction of the Boulder Dam ( later renamed Hoover Dam ); and signed the Norris – La Guardia Act that limited judicial intervention in labor disputes.

A decade before the publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the sequel Through the Looking Glass, Carroll wrote the first stanza to what would become " Jabberwocky " while in Croft on Tees, close to nearby Darlington, where he lived as a child,

They wrote: ' It is our hope that this case will lay the foundation upon which a set of policies and guidelines are built so that when cases of abuse, especially child abuse, are alleged, the programs in place will allow for appropriate questioning and investigation by the police, physicians and child psychologists so as to drastically reduce the chances of conflicting testimony and charges of contamination that can and will raise reasonable doubt.

As David Hume once wrote, " What interest can a fond mother have in view, who loses her health by assiduous attendance on her sick child, and afterwards languishes and dies of grief, when freed, by its death child's, from the slavery of that attendance ?".

Redstockings co-founder Ellen Willis wrote in 1984 that radical feminism " got sexual politics recognized as a public issue ", " created the vocabulary … with which the second wave of feminism entered popular culture ", " sparked the drive to legalize abortion ", " were the first to demand total equality in the so-called private sphere " (" housework and child care ,… emotional and sexual needs "), and " created the atmosphere of urgency " that almost led to the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment.

In 1907, he wrote an essay on " Education in the Light of Spiritual Science ", in which he described the major phases of child development that were later to form the foundation of his approach to education.

Terayama, who wrote about playing hide-and-seek in the graveyard as a child, thought of himself as the odd one out, the one who was always " it " in hide-and-seek.

Milligan wrote most of Series 4 himself, but from Series 5 ( coinciding with the birth of the Milligans ' second child, Seán ) and through most of Series 6, he collaborated with Eric Sykes, a development that grew out of his contemporary business collaboration with Sykes in Associated London Scripts.

In Family Outing, Bono wrote that, " as a child, I always felt there was something different about me.

" I shall never now be satisfied ", Anne wrote to her sister Mary, " whether the child be true or false.

He wrote in his diary, " When I told her what had happened, I broke down and sobbed like a child.

As a child, she wrote insults for children to use on one another, for the cost of a dime.

He wrote it while living in a small structure on top of a hill in the forest outside Worms, after his defeat of Duke Otto and while raising his adopted child.

He wrote, " To please a child is a sweet and a lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.

He is described as " never too busy to mend a toy for a child, and his wife once wrote on hearing of his imminent return from America: ' to celebrate your return I must do something or bust ".

In the preface to the 1867 Charles Dickens edition, he wrote, "… like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child.

When Bossuet was chosen to be the tutor of the Dauphin, oldest child of Louis XIV, he wrote several works for the edification of his pupil, one of which was Politics Derived from the Words of Holy Scripture, a discourse on the principles of royal absolutism.

A dominant motive is the poet's longing for his homeland and its boyhood associations: `` Not men-folk, but the fields where I would stray, The stones where as a child I used to play ''.

I mean something more like Freud's concept of the utility of `` play '' to a small child: he plays `` house '' or `` doctor '' or `` fireman '' as a way of mastering slightly frightening experiences, reliving them imaginatively until they are under control.

The child in the primary grades can play harmoniously with one companion, but his desire to be first in everything gets him into trouble when the group gets larger ; ;

He developed a passion for music as a child, and taught himself to play the piano, violin, and cello.

In further play on this theme by the director, Jade Fox, as she dies, refers to the poison from a young child, " the deceit of an eight year old girl ", obviously referring to what she considers her own spiritual poisoning by her young apprentice Jen.

The nursing child will play by the cobra's hole ; and the weaned child will put his hand in the viper's den.

Fantasizers score high on absorption scales, find it easy to block out real-world stimuli without hypnosis, spend much time daydreaming, report imaginary companions as a child and grew up with parents who encouraged imaginary play.

In his play En Idealist, for example, the " hero " is King Herod whose fight to maintain power is the motive behind all of his acts until he is at last defeated by a show of kindness to the Christ child in a weak moment.

The levels are distributed equally between the two child characters ; three are unique to Claris, three to Elliot, and each play through an identical final seventh level, " Twin Seeds ".

Unschooling is a range of educational philosophies and practices centered on allowing children to learn through their natural life experiences, including child directed play, game play, household responsibilities, work experience, and social interaction, rather than through a more traditional school curriculum.

Indeed, the original haiku included the theme " oni " ( the " it " in Japanese is a demon, though in some parts a very young child forced to play " it " was called a " sea slug " ( namako )).

Sandpit with toy tools used by child ren to play in sand

The play is " a dark play about people who, at the beginning, are with wrong partners and in the end it is hopefully going to become right, and she ( Desiree ) mistimes her life in a way and realizes when she re-meets the man she had an affair with and had a child by ( though he does not know that ), that she loves him and he is the man she wants.

The play implies that when they parted Desirée may have been pregnant with his child.

He was not only a precocious child but, as he recalled later in life, a child prodigy who could play pieces by Beethoven on the piano by the time he was twelve.

Occasionally a more talented child may do card tricks, play the mouth organ, or something even more impressive, but most children will earn plenty of treats even with something very simple.

Bruckner learned to play the organ early as a child.

It appears in Charles Dickens's 1861 novel Great Expectations, as the only card game Pip, the book's protagonist, as a child seems to know how to play.