I'm just having fun. And giving a sort of second shot at childhood and life - and I need to be present to do it.

Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.

Somehow I am really relaxed within the chaos of having a baby - and anyone who's a mother knows it's very hard to relax, because there is so much to do and worry about!

Somehow I am really relaxed within the chaos of having a baby - and anyone who's a mother knows it's very hard to relax, because there is so much to do and worry about!

You want to do movies that your children can watch, and that your children can have fun at and enjoy the experience of shooting.

To watch how lovingly your children parent their own children is to know profound achievement.

Childrens' laughter is like medicine to sadness.

I'm obsessed with my children.

I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids.

Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. ROBERT FULGHUM

Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems.

If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child

I write the way women have babies. You don't know it's going to be like that. If you did, there's no way you would go through with it.

Sometimes when you have children they're the opposites of you.

I have an only child. She's so independent and good with adults.

We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about strangers and foster fear in children.

Children are not unforgiving. You can punish them and they will hug you in a few minutes.

I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.

It's sad that children cannot know their parents when they were younger; when they were loving, courting, and being nice to one another. By the time children are old enough to observe, the romance has all too often faded or gone underground.

I love children. They're so much fun and I would have a blast spoiling them.

I love children. They're so much fun and I would have a blast spoiling them.

Sometimes when I talk to little children I remind them of the fact that when I was growing up myself, I used to play with frog eggs and tadpoles and I used to walk in the field, I used to literally copy whatever my mother was doing on the land. And that may be the reason why I eventually developed the passion for green and for the Earth. So it is extremely important for adults and especially those who are in charge of cities to make sure that we do not lose touch with the land and with the environment. And especially our children.

Why do we have to have people come from afar to come and grow food for us, or to grow food to sell to us? It is partly because we are almost becoming used to people doing things for us. Like somebody else is going to solve that problem for us. And that to me is very disempowering system.

We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.