Such a topsy-turvy situation has come about at least in part because, unlike the rest of the world, we are an immigrant society, and for immigrants the only hope is in the kids. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. Children robbed of love will dwell on magic. A child does not thrive on what he is prevented from doing, but on what he actually does.
Few grownups can get through a whole day without making a mistake.
A child can never be better than what his parents think of him. Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet, there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires. I love children, especially when they cry, because then somebody takes them away. Where there's a will there's a way, and when there's a child there's a will. They do not know the value of your money.