Good guilt is a product of love and responsibility. It is a natural, positive instinct that parents and good child care providers ...have. If bad guilt is a monster, good guilt is a friendly fairy godmother, yakking away in your head to keep you alert to the needs of your baby.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He was high and mighty. But the kindest creature to his slaves--and the unfortunate results of his bad ways were not sold, had not... to jump over ice blocks. They were kept in full view and provided for handsomely in his will. His wife and daughters in the might of their purity and innocence are supposed never to dream of what is as plain before their eyes as the sunlight, and they play their parts of unsuspecting angels to the letter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Although the same exemplary figures are found in both and equally miraculous events occur in both, there is a crucial difference i...n the way these are communicated. Put simply, the dominant feeling a myth conveys is: this is absolutely unique; it could not have happened to any other person, or in any other setting; such events are grandiose, awe-inspiring, and could not possibly happen to an ordinary mortal like you or me. The reason is not so much that what takes place is miraculous, but that it is described as such. By contrast, although the events which occur in fairy tales are often unusual and most improbable, they are always presented as ordinary, something that could happen to you or me or the person next door when out on a walk in the woods. Even the most remarkable encounters are related in casual, everyday ways in fairy tales.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A child... who has learned from fairy stories to believe that what at first seemed a repulsive, threatening figure can magically c...hange into a most helpful friend is ready to believe that a strange child whom he meets and fears may also be changed from a menace into a desirable companion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The truth is, no matter how trying they become, babies two and under don't have the ability to make moral choices, so they can't b...e "bad." That category only exists in the adult mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice ve...rsa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »