Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.

Biologically and temperamentally, I believe women were made to be concerned first and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

There are only two things a child will share willingly- communicable diseases and his mother's age.

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the fut…

If you said more words to him than 'mommy'll be back', he might know something!