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Every child is so different. Their experience growing up and their experience relating to the world has so much to do with their temperament, and their likes and their dislikes.

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

Kids have been let down by adults - we've tried to give them too much, we've tried not to impose discipline. We've tried to make their lives easier and, in doing so, we've taken something away from them. Kids like boundaries, they also like to be pushed, need to learn what failure is all about, need guidance.

One advantage to having a kid on the spectrum: they tend to be rule followers. Socially, things are harder for them than most kids.

Wayward, disobedient children cause their parents grief and anxiety.

I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.

Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

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

Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won't challenge unfit parents.