I speak Berber to my kids.

shocked my children and also shocked me.

It transformed my children's behaviors, personalities, and academics.

Then in January, my children got sick. On top of all that, Aziz wasn t allowed to work while he waited.

No teachers had helped us get my children back on track.

When my little kids were little they're all grown, now I have grandkids I used to go in and sit on the side of their bed, and I used to watch my kids sleep.

I am a parent and I now fear for the safety of my children. And I am far from alone.

I m a single mother of 8 and none of my children are at school.

The first thing I thought of ... was my children at home .

I felt that I was alone in getting my children through this.

The rest of my children look for any type of work that they can find.

They said, That guy looked sketchy. I was suspicious, but my children were hungry.

And along the way I've started noticing I'm on my third generation of kids that they're getting bigger.

But, you know, I want my kids to succeed in life and this isn't going to get them there.

Suppose my children have to pay off the debt to you that I incurred. They will be worse off.

BRUSSELS Many years ago, I took my children to visit the sites of the D Day landings in Normandy.

CA Wow. So, most people, if you ask them what are they most passionate about, they'd say things like, My kids or My lover.

I worry that my children have hate in their hearts, and when they want to grow up, they want to fight again the killers of their father and their brother.

But if I think about it, I thought I wanted a husband, but what I really wanted was a family that was loving. And I fiercely love my children, and they love me back.

And I watched my own young grandchildren now come along and they're, much to the distress of my children, they are acting just like we did. You know? You imprint them.

Nour Abed, a school teacher, tweets My students at school when I find tracks of melted wax on their notebooks, I realize that they wrote their homework by candlelight!

In recent years I have become even more determined to confront the cockroach menace head on, mostly because my kids are deathly afraid of the big, shiny black bugs.

If I got an extreme case of cancer, where would my children go?

And I began climbing trees with my kids as just something to do with them, using the so called arborist climbing technique, with ropes. You use ropes to get yourself up into the crown of a tree.

And I think that one of the happiest things is the sense that with my children I've been able to introduce them into the very small circle of humans who are lucky enough, or possibly stupid enough, to still climb trees.

And that's what I want to improve,I want to be a father that does things without noticing it, I want to hug, kiss my children, present them the best option to make the best decisions and support them when they don't make the good ones, never hesitate in demonstrating my love and care, let alone when they earn a smack on the head.

I know that one day my children will be wondering or my grandchildren, or my great grandchildren, if I ever have children what I am going to who I was, so I do something that's very narcissistic I am a blogger that is an amazing thing for me, because it captures a moment in time everyday.

And the goal is that the world be desirable and sustainable when my kids reach my age and I think that's in other words, the next generation. I think that's a goal that we probably all share.

We need to elongate the time frame upon which we judge the balance in our life, but we need to elongate it without falling into the trap of the I'll have a life when I retire, when my kids have left home, when my wife has divorced me, my health is failing, I've got no mates or interests left.