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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life - no matter how impossible it seems - you need to fight for it.

I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.

It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.

I've had to whine for everything I've ever really wanted.

Everybody wants respect. In their own way, three-year-olds would like respect, and acknowledgment, in their terms.

The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.

I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored.

After you get what you want you don't want it.

I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.