Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her.

We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history.

For children, Christmas is anticipation. For adults, Christmas is memory.

I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.

Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously.

I’ve found what makes children happy doesn’t always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.