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If you can't give children optimism, then what are you doing?

Unfortunately, kids are led to believe things are easier to achieve than they really are.

As a parent, I want my kids to have an optimistic outlook, and one that has hope, and that makes sense, where good does triumph over evil and it's not cynical, and it's not snarky.

You have a lot of optimism when you are young.

I get a little cranky with the whole business about kids not having attention spans. This reminds me of the usual business of thinking that the next generation is hopeless. Every generation has said that about every younger generation.

Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.

Children are far more interesting to work with than grownups. They're incredibly honest. They'll tell you exactly what they think.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

I'm an optimistic guy. I'm one of those big dreamers. I'm one of those kids with that annoying imagination.

As kids do, they're smart, and even if parents try to keep things away from them, conflict and issues and whatnot, kids pick up on what's happening.