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The challenging part of parenting for me is to make sure that an individual person is an individual and not some sort of cookie-cutter version of me. At the same time, I want to make sure that I impart my sense of the world as an adult.

Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults.

Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.

Any mature, responsible adult doesn't run around stomping their feet and screaming 'I'm a mature, responsible, adult.'

I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.

Anybody who has children and children who are well feels a sense of responsibility towards parents and kids and families that are struggling and that aren't well.

When you have parents who are a little out of their minds, somebody has to take responsibility.

My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.