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

We know that kids who grow up in an environment of warmth and support will thrive and function in whatever environment they find themselves. What we need to do is to do more to help poor kids have such an environment.

Caring for children has always been one of the deepest and most satisfying things that a human being does, and yet it is hard to keep a healthy attitude toward it in our competitive, outcome-oriented society.

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

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

I think, at the end of the century we'll have a generation of parents and a generation of children who won't have had the deep satisfactions of being parents and being children in the way that they might have and are going to spend a lot of time fretting and worrying and being hovered over for nothing. The question isn't so much "What will happen in the long run?" but "What's happening to people's lives right now?"

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.