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

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.

I think that my favourite animal is a baby possum, or a joey. The face of a really little joey is so divine - so, so gorgeous.

Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four years old, they’re usually among the best readers by the time they’re eight.

When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.

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.