Yes, but nomes aren’t hard to make,” said Dorcas. “You just need other nomes.” “You’re weird.

The move towards the extension of personhood to children is already underway, and is utterly, completely and totally unstoppable!

Children are the most reasonable about discipline. When they tell you not to do something, it's always because they know why.

But our forest is sacred & magical with many unusual creatures & plants.We don’t want people to destroy everything!

At this stage of my life, I've finally come to realize I've learned more from my children than they ever learned from me.

Betty had forgotten how you only get slivers of stories from children - usually what they echo from overheard adult conversations.

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

I had so much respect for the fact that Father Andrew saw his own sins in my actions. I wished all adults were like Father Andrew.

He switched off the light, came back and sat in the chair. In the darkness, Liesel kept her eyes open. She was watching the words.

Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.

My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy mentally healthy child is Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can

I guess you just have to trust your kids, trust that their innate interest in life will win out in the end, don’t you think?

The future of my child is unknown but I have loved him, supported him, and taught him right from wrong. I will continue to do so...

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.

The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.