Adults Tend To Think They Have Much

Becoming An Adult Means Leaving The World Of Your Parents And Starting To Make Your Way Toward The Future That You Will Share With Your Peers.

Putting Together Philosophy And Children Would Have Been Difficult For Most Of History. But Very Fortunately For Me, When I Started Graduate School There Was A Real Scientific Revolution Taking Place In Developmental Psychology.

Animals Are Certainly More Sophisticated Than We Used To Think. And We Shouldn't Lump Together Animals As A Group. Crows And Chimps And Dogs Are All Highly Intelligent In Very Different Ways.

Being A Grandmother Is A Wonderful Thing, So My Advice Is Skip The Children. Go Straight To The Grandchildren.

I Think, At The End Of The Century We'll Have A Generation Of Parents And A Generation Of Children Who Won't Have Had The Deep Satisfactions Of Being Parents And Being Children In The Way That They Might Have And Are Going To Spend A Lot Of Time Fretting And Worrying And Being Hovered Over For Nothing. The Question Isn't So Much "what Will Happen In The Long Run?" But "what's Happening To People's Lives Right Now?"