A preschool child does not emerge from your toddler on a given date or birthday. He becomes a child when he ceases to be a wayward, confusing, unpredictable and often balky person-in-the- making, and becomes a comparatively cooperative, eager-and-easy-to-please real human being--at least 60 per cent of the time.

Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives.

Children do not need superhuman, perfect parents. They have always managed with good enough parents: the parents they happened to have.

Whatever you do to your child's body, you are doing to your child's mind too.

Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.

Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being "fearless" means being without fear.

There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby's. Your body is the child's instrument of birth.