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As much as you don't like disciplining your kids, you have to sometimes. Kids want that structure, that leadership, that guidance. I think that's what I try to give my children.

There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.

The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example.

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.