The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.
All any child needs is the protection of loving parents and an alternative source of information.
The world knows how to straighten out a spoiled child but never makes it up to a child deprived.
If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded.
If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory.
In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.
In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy.
I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation.
There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.
The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.
A watched child never learns.
