Because a child can stop one day and say, "I don't want to do this," he's tired or he wants to sleep.
Sometimes I promise candy to children who can stop squabbling.
"With communal support and paternal investment in caring for children, we can stop earlier," said Tara Smith, a Harvard anthropologist who co-authored the Nature study.
Now Jewish children everywhere can stop bending The Tenth Commandment.
As an only child, with one of my own, and as someone who has just spent three years writing about the subject, I'm convinced that if, by dint of will or biology, you have an only child, you can stop worrying about it.
Having children means you can stop trying to be Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre and get on with the real meaning of life – wiping excrement from children's bottoms.
Young children with pertussis can stop breathing or have seizures; they often require hospitalization and even intensive care, while in an adult, pertussis can seem like just another persistent cough.
When they first meet, Jenny reaches across and wonderingly strokes Helen's fur coat, like a child, before she can stop herself.
If the Obama administration wants to prove their determination to protect our children's health, they can stop playing chicken with our children's lives by catering to every agribusiness lobby that ventures their way and start standing up for the American people.
As this story and others like it continue to play out on in the headlines and on TV screens across America, Geffner said having "much more open communication between parents and children" can help stop these relationships, as can "much more public awareness of what is and is not an appropriate relationship".
