"They said, 'I want the stirrup to be easy to get in and out of, but when I'm in there, I really want some sort of grip,'" said John Pierce, the company's director of product development.

To hear the couple talk, it will be an enriching, madcap adventure that will allow their children to learn things on the road they might not in a classroom.

"I was flabbergasted," she said.

"What I liked about it is, it wasn't candy-coated," she said.

Shouting "Cotton candy! Get your cotton candy here!" will only irritate people during a game's tense moments.

"For this guy in a few weeks to go from Mr. Tiger to be Mr. Pussycat, I don't see it."

"We have overrated the childlike aspects of adolescence."

Kindergarten is not what it used to be.

"I'm trying to garner from them whatever wisdom I can about how you go through it."

The secret to getting good services, the 19th-century writer Emily Huntington told the readers of her book, was to get them very young.

Nearly half the executives said that entry-level workers lacked writing skills, and 27 percent said that they were deficient in critical thinking.

The children are the tiny Ed McMahons of the race, warming up the audience before the main pitch.

Not only was I young, I looked young. It was a challenge to be taken seriously.