Remember your creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come, and the years draw near when you will say, "I ha...ve no pleasure in them"; before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return with the rain; in the day when the guards of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the women who grind cease working because they are few, and those who look through the windows see dimly; when the doors on the street are shut, and the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low; when one is afraid of heights, and terrors are in the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along and desire fails; because all must go to their eternal home, and the mourners will go about the streets; before the silver cord is snapped, and the golden bowl is broken, and the pitcher is broken at the fountain, and the wheel broken at the cistern, and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I want to go back, out of the bad stories, But there's always the possibility that the next one . . .... No, it's another almond tree, or a ring-swallowing frog . . . Yet they are beautiful as we people them With ourselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Is a park any better than a coal mine? What's a mountain got that a slag pile hasn't? What would you rather have in your garden--a...n almond tree or an oil well?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Research show clearly that parents who have modeled nurturant, reassuring responses to infants' fears and distress by soothing wor...ds and stroking gentleness have toddlers who already can stroke a crying child's hair. Toddlers whose special adults model kindliness will even pick up a cookie dropped from a peer's high chair and return it to the crying peer rather than eat it themselves!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a "liar" after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then c...onvinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The upbeat lawyer/negotiator of preadolescence has become a real pro by now--cynical, shrewd, a tough cookie. You're constantly em...broiled in a match of wits. You're exhausted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Temperament is the natural, inborn style of behavior of each individual. It's the how of behavior, not the why.... The question is... not, "Why does he behave a certain way if he doesn't get a cookie?" but rather, "When he doesn't get a cookie, how does he express his displeasure...?" The environment--and your behavior as a parent--can influence temperament and interplay with it, but it is not the cause of temperamental characteristics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Living by basic good-mothering guidelines enables a mom to blend the responsibilities of parenthood with its joys; to know when to... stand her ground and when to be flexible; and to absorb the lessons of the parenting gurus while also trusting her inner voice when it reasons that another cookie isn't worth fighting over, or that her child won't suffer irreparable trauma if, once in a while, Mom puts her own needs first.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »