Everything I know about kids I learned from kids – my own, and all the beautiful children left in our care at Oak View Nursery School. There was a time when I thought I was going to teach children all kinds of wonderful things. I soon discovered they were teaching me!

They taught me to take care of the four-year-old within me in order to bring out the best in my adult self. They taught me not to cover all the bases…or answer all the questions…or make everything perfect all the time. They taught me not to always need to be needed…not to be a referee…and to let them experience forgetting their lunch and their homework.

I learned to set loving firm limits…to wait patiently for results…to trust that they knew best in selecting courses and careers and sweethearts…to have a life of my own and let them have theirs…to give love, not advice unless asked…to be tactful when truthful, and above all to treat them like friends. And you know what? They are!