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We say that children are bad at paying attention, but we really mean that they're bad at not paying attention - they easily get distracted by anything interesting.

One has to divide attention between having kids and a full workload.

Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the corner.

Kids today are technologically sophisticated. In many families, they are far ahead of their parents.

When I get out across the country and listen to people, the resentment that I see and the frustration that I see is that we have a generation of people who are fairly convinced that their kids are not going to have a better quality of life or a better future than they will.

Grownups have a tendency to talk themselves out of things, saying it will never work, but kids are fabulously optimistic.

When a parent says about a book, 'That's not my child's world,' I remind them of the future. Social fluency will be the new currency of success. Not experiencing diversity challenges our kids' future in the global work force. It handicaps them from making America and the world more livable and just.

Children are very addicting. Once they start growing up, you miss when they were little.

Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children.