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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'

The road is hard, and you have to get accustomed to it.

There are several methods for introducing your children to driving, and all of them are bad. Probably the worst is to put it off.

What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.

If your child's going to ride in a car or go swimming or play soccer, all of those things involve risk. And if your child doesn't do any of those things, then they're probably sitting too much, and that involves risk, too.

Kids will remind you that, even though you've gone down a road 100 times, it's brand new for them - and that's healthy.

Kids who grow up in radically different environments are always going to have different comfort levels with regard to a topic. If you don't live near a train track, it's hard to squash a penny that way, and if you live in an apartment in New York City, it may be difficult to get to drive a car.

I think 'The Road' is a good example of a book everyone should read, but I wouldn't recommend it to young kids.

When given age-appropriate challenges, children tend to take them very seriously; in fact, the more obvious the risk is, the more cautiously a child will proceed.