Quotes about "Family & Parenting"

I'm the oldest of six children and I had my own first baby when I was 23. So I've always been interested in babies, and I had lots of opportunities to watch them. ”

The real excitement is collaborating with computer scientists and neuroscientists and starting to understand in detail how children learn so much so quickly. ”

The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one. ”

Teaching is a very effective way to get children to learn something specific - this tube squeaks, say, or a squish then a press then a pull causes the music to play. But it also makes children less likely to discover unexpected information and to draw unexpected conclusions. ”

Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing. ”

Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading books to babies in the womb. ”

I think my cat is adorable, and I probably give it too much fresh chicken. Maybe if I had a child, I'd be giving the chicken to the child. ”

Any abuse of animals is the same as abuse of men, women, or children. ”

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me. ”

The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence. ”