One of the most common reasons people renovate their homes is a change in their lifestyle - an upcoming wedding, a new baby, or grown children moving away.
As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology to include strangers on the Internet.
I certainly believe in limited government but protecting children against injury abuse is certainly inside my sphere of things that the government should do.
Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them protect their children from influences they may not want their kids exposed to.
For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.
Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.
When the children were little, I'd fly into L.A. for a specific work project, but then I'd leave again, and when I was home, I wouldn't even read a script.
I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.
Image is something you construct, while reputation starts at home. If you are able to pass on solid values to your children, then they can become citizens of the world.
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.
I'm one of those actresses that really enjoys staying home with my children. To be told you've got to get to work, it is just unbelievable what it does to you.
The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.
An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.
There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl. I hope to start directing it.
Having children changes you forever, as a writer and as a human being. I hope it's for the better on both counts, but I guess we'll see.
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.
I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
