kids

Video games and computers have become babysitters for kids.

I'm encouraging kids to use computers at their own pace to build aspirations.

Millions of nerdy kids who grew up in the 1980s could only find the components they needed at local Radio Shacks, and the stores were like a lifeline to a better world where everybody understood computers.

If you gave kids peas that didn't look like peas and said they were a space shuttle, they're much more apt to eat them because it's now playtime.

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.

My kids are good athletes and runners. They run in a bunch of sports.

I think that kids aren't even exploring the option of sports anymore, and they don't even know what they could do.

It's so important for kids to get involved with sports in general at a young age.

Team sports are very important for shaping personalities. It's important that kids understand the mentality behind playing team sports and playing for one another and playing with friends.

My dad is the reason I actually started watching wrestling. My dad was never big into sports; we were all big into sports as kids, and he'd go to our Little League games or whatever and not really know what was going on, because he didn't know about sports, but he knew about wrestling.

Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.

The Cool Kids are Chicago. Me being from Michigan is a part of that dynamic.

I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.

If kids can have some sort of social responsibility, that's cool. But if they're not actually having social responsibility, and they're kind of hiding behind it, that's kind of useless, or even worse.

I'm not a parenting expert by any means, but I've been interviewing and writing about kids for almost 20 years.

It's really hard to figure out what they need to know. And that's parenting, in general. It's hard to figure out what would benefit your kids and what would just make them needlessly frightened.

Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.