Parents want to be involved, they really want to be involved in the day-to-day process, but also in projects in terms of really being a partner in their child's education.

My parents were very close in everything they did.

[Parents] think their kids can dress themselves and they can feed themselves and they can let themselves in the door, and I think a kid that age really needs as much if not more time with their parents than they did when they were 8 or 10,

It's interesting to see little children who are deaf, with deaf parents. Maybe the mommy is the only one who understands a certain sign the child does. The language development is similar no matter what the language is.

The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.

Spies and parents never sleep.