Today's children are taught by our culture that we are a cosmic accident. Something slithered out of the primal slime and over billions of years evolved into a human being. We are cousins, ten times removed, to the ape at the zoo eating his own excrement.
I was inspired by the Hole in the Wall project, where a computer with an internet connection was put in a Delhi slum. When the slum was revisited after a month, the children of that slum had learned how to use the worldwide web.
I learned my English from Keith Spurgeon. He had some small children, and I was young, too, and so we spoke the language together, and it was fantastic.
At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.
I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.
I adore children. If I weren't an actor, I would be a teacher or work with small children in some way. I feel happy in their company.
I'm trying to find a man to share my life with, but it's not been easy. I'm a 35-year-old woman with two small children.
There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.
Blame is for God and small children.
Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.
In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.
There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
I have mothers with small children come to me and say, 'You found that I had early breast cancer - because of you, I don't have cancer.' You've just prevented that person from dying early, and to prevent an early, unnecessary death is incredibly meaningful.
Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it and someone comes along and goes I want Thomas The Tank Engine on, and screams the place down until you put it on.
With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get.
It is no small thing that the juiciest and most complicated roles of my life have come post-having two children.
My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.
I've seen my fair share of drama over the years of Children In Need. I had a close brush with mortality in 2009 when a chain collapsed from the studio rigging. I was in mid-spout to camera when I heard an enormous crash behind me - a ton of steel had come hurtling down and smashed to the ground a few feet away.
I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.
Tobacco marketing often reaches children and youth and entices them to start using tobacco while they are still at an impressionable age. Nearly four out of five high school cigarette smokers will become adult smokers, even if they intend to quit in a few years. By the time they want to quit, they're hooked.
