What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three double espressos.

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

The more obsessively we focus on what a particular food is going to do for us, the less healthy we've become. Simple pleasures become complicated.

Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush, giving the plant a desired shape.

There is a tension between our desire to get our kids to turn out a particular way versus letting them develop to be their own person. If there were a pill that would make my child turn out the way I wanted, I'm not sure I'd take it.

I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.

Owning our past allows us to own our future.