The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved by the book alone, nor by the child alone, nor by the adult who’s reading aloud—it’s the relationship winding between all three, bringing them together in easy harmony.

Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their brains damage.

My Mother was a very wild Australian woman. When we were in Africa she could kill a snake with one blow from a crow bar, which she kept at the back door.

As everyone knows, nothing is sweeter than tiny baby fingers and chubby baby toes.

I don't know why some people have children at all if they know that they can only take a few weeks off work.

I made a lot of friends at school, and they were all Africans. I could have felt very different. I didn't feel different, I didn't notice the color of their skin, I didn't notice the color of my skin and I have remembered that all my life.

DO NOT attempt to bring up other people's children through your text.