I was thrilled to be able to read at three. I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did.

Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age.

I was thrilled to be able to read at three. I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did.

Learning between grown-ups and kids should be reciprocal. The reality, unfortunately, is a little different, and it has a lot to do with trust, or a lack of it.

Make sure that your kids or the kids in your life have an opportunity to share their ideas, and to teach you something about what we know.

If we all understood we can learn from both older and younger people, then we'd have a better world.

There's no committee that says, 'This is the type of person who can change the world - and you can't.' Realizing that anyone can do it is the first step. The next step is figuring out how you're going to do it.