If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.

I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words

The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue …

The only secrets that are good are the ones with an ending. Keep surprises instead of secrets in your home.

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

Children playing while in the background the TV blares with screams, gunfire and rape-murder scenes. It seeps in.

Here you have a unique situation where children are literally showing up at the doors of sex offenders.

One of the things I dread about becoming an adult is that sooner or later you begin letting sentimentality get in the way of simple logic.

Save the children, save mankind.

Magic?” What did magic have to do with breaking into someone’s store and stealing their stuff?”Don’t you get it?” Peter said. “You’re free now. You don’t have to live by their rules anymore.” Peter pointed...

I do must decidedly object, and have a most invincible and powerful repugnance to that frequent reference to the Almighty in small matters, which so many excellent persons consider necessary in the education of children....

I used to have more tolerance for these views, but I am losing patience with what I see. The test of anything is the fruit it bears. I see no good fruit being born.

Children have such an innocent view of their world and surroundings; every thought is a garden full of wonder.

Hope had finally learned to live in the present. Often, when she found herself in a space of tremendous comfort, usually out in nature, or when her children were safe all around her and on...

I’ve been the oldest child since before you were born