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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

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.

As soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.

I don't like narrowing my readers down - there's not a particular age or gender or nationality. I suppose I'm aiming at the child I was.

Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.

There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.

I am always who I am, and anyone who's known me forever will tell you that. I guess there's enough of a child in me that that's important.

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.