Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.
I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.
Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.
Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.
And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!
Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.