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Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring some very deep and profound questions: 'How should this society work? How should relationships among people work?' The exploration is: 'Who am I, what am I doing?'

Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.

Children are not children. They are just younger people.

I'm one of those people that makes a better adult than I did a kid.

In a situation where it's the child or the adult, I'm going with the child.

My children are now all grown. Some are in their 60s. But when they call and I answer the phone, they say, 'How are you?' And before I can answer, they ask, 'Is Mother there?'

I do think kids should be kids. You have the rest of your life to be an adult.

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

As kids, our experiences shape our opinions of ourselves and the world around us, and that's who we become as adults.

We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.