When the Revolutionaries ran short of gun wadding the Rev. James Caldwell ... broke open the church doors and seized an armful of ...Watts' hymnbooks. The preacher threw them to the soldiers and shouted, "Give 'em Watts, boys--give 'em Watts!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our basic ideas about how to parent are encrusted with deeply felt emotions and many myths. One of the myths of parenting is that ...it is always fun and games, joy and delight. Everyone who has been a parent will testify that it is also anxiety, strife, frustration, and even hostility. Thus most major parenting- education formats deal with parental emotions and attitudes and, to a greater or lesser extent, advocate that the emotional component is more important than the knowledge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Without our being especially conscious of the transition, the word "parent" has gradually come to be used as much as a verb as a n...oun. Whereas we formerly thought mainly about "being a parent," we now find ourselves talking about learning how "to parent." . . . It suggests that we may now be concentrating on action rather than status, on what we do rather than what or who we are.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The academic expectations for a child just beginning school are minimal. You want your child to come to preschool feeling happy, r...easonably secure, and eager to explore and learn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; ...and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The arbitrary division of one's life into weeks and days and hours seemed, on the whole, useless. There was but one day for the me...n, and that was pay day, and one for the women, and that was rent day. As for the children, every day was theirs, just as it should be in every corner of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Heed not Mephistopheles, my children, lest you suffer eternal damnation. When he whispers in your ear, turn away your head and hea...rken instead to the angel on your shoulder.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »