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

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

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.

Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing.

Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they learn from the data and ideas of other scientists. The recent studies show that children also learn in these ways.

We don't measure the quality of our other relationships by how well the other person turns out, for instance whether my husband is a better person after 10 years than he was when I first met him.

If parents are the fixed stars in the childs universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.