"Loving our children includes introducing and teaching them to live with frustration. Saying no to a child becomes just as important as loving her unconditionally. There is a popular misunderstanding that loving parenting means unconditional acceptance, without rules. This is not the case." Karen Pierce, MD

"Play is the signature of childhood. It's a living, visible manifestation of imagination and learning in action." The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life by Alison Gopnik

"Cadre means that kids have very firm limits... and that the parents strictly enforce those limits. But within those limits, the kids have a lot of freedom." Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting by Pamela Druckerman

"Joy is connection." -George Vaillant