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I believe in allowing your child to be who they want to be - as long as they want to be something great.

Kids will not listen to that. They're going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest.

When you raise a child, you don't sit down and take all the rules of life, write them into a big catalog, and start reading the child all these individual rules from A to Z. When we raise a child, a lot of what we do is let the child experiment and guide the experimentation. The child basically has to process his own data and learn from experience.

Having a child on the way changes your perspective. You want to do things that will make them proud of you.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

My life revolves around my child's routine.

You can coddle your child and tell them, 'You're the best no matter what.' But in the end, when they go out into the real world, I think it's pretty tough out there and other children are cruel.

One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result.

We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children.

I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.