I have very little patience with children.

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.

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.

You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.

Babies have much higher levels of stress in childcare.

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.

The fastest way to teach a child to read is to teach them to write.