Gone are the streams that used to flow down our land, gone is the swamp that we used to hunt birds in my child hood.
If my child is in pain, how can I make my child more comfortable?
What type of help will my child need in school, and how can I ensure that public schools will provide the educational resources my child needs?
"I was really more interested in focusing on seeing my child perform, " she says.
Indeed, when I was living in Indonesia as a child, when my mother would wake me up early in the morning to teach me, among the books that she used to pull off the shelf were the legends of Greek mythology.
And now there was a child involved in my life?
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As for my child who is in camp right now, I'm not going to be one of those extreme parents.
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It poses a difficult question for the family: 'Do I sell out of these accounts now and pay the tax, or do I keep money in there and use it for my child when they go to college?
My brain tells me it would be irresponsible to have a child in this polluted environment and I think about how my relatively small carbon footprint would grow dramatically.
Unbeknownst to me at the time, my arrival at the hospital had launched an investigation by Child Protective Services back at my home in Austin.
And while I have learnt many things, I keep returning to something I first learned in my father's church as a child.
My second child is due in six weeks, and the natural thoughts that percolate through a father's head continue to support the move I made.
In fact, I was crying with sadness, imagining how devastated my father would have felt as a child had he been successful in trapping the Tooth Fairy.
When my first child was due back in 1998, I anticipated that I wanted to be home the following semester at nights and not to be teaching.
He opens the door, squeezing his huge frame into my passenger seat, like a child in undersized clothes.
And what she had done was she snuck down to Earth to bless this couple with a child, and that child is, in a sense, my daughter.
And with regard to Miss Hayden, I can only say that after, for the first time in my life, seeing a sonogram of my own child, I will never think the same exactly again.
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And then, in the last year of British imperial rule, my first child was born here.
They were trying to hoist the child -- dressed in the colors of my party's flag -- onto my truck.
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Because since I was a child, I have been making up stories in my head that I am someone else, somewhere else.
Fresh from playing at the World Cup for Scotland, I went to see my folks in Australia, got married and had a new child, Ruby Rose.
Nowhere is the blind complacency of the establishment more evident than in its bovine attitude toward academic degrees: as long as my child goes to the right schools, upward mobility will continue.
In the few weeks that I spent with my father as a child -- he came to visit me for about a month when I was young -- one of the things he did was to take me to my first jazz concert, in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1971, and it was a Dave Brubeck concert. (Laughter and applause.) And I've been a jazz fan ever since.
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My great-grandfather made a rule that every child in the family must have a name of the Buddha.
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There is also a third child in Sandy's poster, a boy about my age, who is now the one wearing the knickers.
My eleventh child was a boy and he was killed in Afghanistan.
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