What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.

We don't wife our husbands and we don't child our parents.

Children are the most amazing thing in the universe, as far as I'm concerned. If you're worrying about how it's going to turn out, you aren't experiencing that day-to-day satisfaction of being with these incredible, extraordinary creatures. Every single one of them is the most incredible, extraordinary creature that you're ever going to want to see. I think the joy of having that deep relationship - that's the core of what being a parent is.

Being a grandmother is a wonderful thing, so my advice is skip the children. Go straight to the grandchildren.

What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers.

We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.

Adults tend to think they have much free will. Kids younger than six are less sure. They may be more realistic!