Child Experience Quotes

A parent can seem very kind and gentle, but as any child knows, as soon as that parent gets stressed, they can suddenly turn and get a bit angry.

The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.

Going to the roof of the Empire State Building is pretty amazing for kids.

I've never actually given birth to a child, but I suspect that going to a Justin Bieber concert with a child is close.

I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.

In large families, it seems it is hardest to be either the first or the last child. That was certainly true in ours.

What I try to do in my picture books is to be all-inclusive, but not exclusive, to not exclude the kid and not exclude the parents from the experience. And it's not a very easy task; you can't find stories that work that way too much of the time.

What's really important for us is that our home base is in L.A., and when we move to Toronto - where 'Suits' is filmed - we move as a unit and are always together in the same place. My 5-year-old goes to two schools, which I was worried about, but it ended up being an amazing, self-esteem-building experience for her. She celebrates it.

Because I don't have a child and as much as you can sort of imagine it it's always nice to hear from all different walks of life what motherhood is like and what that feels like. And particularly young mothers.