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I think the power of a grandchild is it taps an instinct that people later in life also have towards... the world of nonprofits or charities. They want to leave a better place.

The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents can also be subversive and naughty with them.

I have two grandchildren.

I don't want my grandchildren to go through what I went through.

All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.

There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.

The thing with children is they're a bit like baking a fruitcake: you throw all the ingredients in but you never know how they're going to turn out.

I think the best thing that you can do with your kids is to talk to them like they're human beings, not like they're children and they don't know what they're doing.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.