I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: ‘Checkout Time is 18 years.’
Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.
Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.
I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.