We Know That Kids Who Grow Up

The Brain Is Highly Structured, But It Is Also Extremely Flexible. It's Not A Blank Slate, But It Isn't Written In Stone, Either.

Babies And Young Children Are Like The Research And Development Division Of The Human Species, And We Grown-ups Are Production And Marketing.

We Fear Death So Profoundly, Not Because It Means The End Of Our Body, But Because It Means The End Of Our Consciousness - Better To Be A Spirit In Heaven Than A Zombie On Earth.

All Of Us Gardeners Know That Nothing Comes Out The Way You Planned. It's A Different Garden Every Year, And It's Always Sort Of Different From What You Were Thinking When You Began. What It Really Means To Be A Good Gardener Is To Work Hard To Produce An Ecosystem That Will Have Enough Diversity, Enough Possibilities, So It's Robust, And It's Resilient, And It Can Change When The Seasons Change. And That Kind Of Robust, Unexpected, Variable, Messy System - That's What You Want To Create When You're Having Children, Too.

We Pass Our Values, Ideas And Moral Character On To Our Children, But We Do That Knowing That Our Children Are Going To Revise Our Knowledge And Reshape Their Values. There's Something Very Paradoxical And Profound About Being A Parent As Opposed To Parenting. We Put In All This Effort And Energy Not So That We Can Shape A Child Of A Particular Sort, But So That All Sorts Of Possibilities Can Happen In The Future.