Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.

I remember when I was a little girl, I played with water and went running in the rain. Ah! precious childhood moments.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

When you're a kid, you tend to see the best in your mates. Because at least they're not as bad as your parents.

I know how syrupy this sounds, how dull, provincial, and possibly whitewashed, but what can I do? Happy childhoods happen

I'm not sure who invented dodgeball, but I can almost guarantee you that it wasn't the shortest kid in the class.

It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these

I think I was very often bored as a child, but boredom is not what I knew it as—what I knew was that I worried a lot

His adolescents are displaced aristocrats who have lost their kingdom and wealth, which was childhood. [On J.D. Salinger]

The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it’s rarely a straight line.

I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember who I was and how I felt.

It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.

Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child.

This was me before I knew about anything hard, when my whole life was packed lunches and art projects and spelling quizzes.

From New Year's Eve through the third of January, the streets of Tokyo grew quiet, as if all the people had disappeared.