Lawrence Kutner

Your baby only needs a lot of light at night if he's reading or he's entertaining guests.

The fundamental job of a toddler is to rule the universe.

Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. Children, despite all their complexity, do not.

Children learn and remember at least as much from the context of the classroom as from the content of the coursework.

Not all conflicts between siblings are good, of course. A child who is repeatedly humiliated or made to feel insignificant by a brother or sister is learning little except humiliation and shame.