Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage parenting would be a breeze.

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting the 1960's and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.

The Golden Rule of Parenting is do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!

I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.

Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by you know abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.

What lingers from the parent's individual past unresolved or incomplete often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.