We live in a highly industrialized society and every member of the Black nation must be as academically and technologically develo...ped as possible. To wage a revolution, we need competent teachers, doctors, nurses, electronics experts, chemists, biologists, physicists, political scientists, and so on and so forth. Black women sitting at home reading bedtime stories to their children are just not going to make it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For most visitors to Manhattan, both foreign and domestic, New York is the Shrine of the Good Time. "I don't see how you stand it,..." they often say to the native New Yorker who has been sitting up past his bedtime for a week in an attempt to tire his guest out. "It's all right for a week or so, but give me the little old home town when it comes to living." And, under his breath, the New Yorker endorses the transfer and wonders himself how he stands it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing, neither acceptance nor prohibition, will induce a child to stop swearing overnight. Teach your child respect for himself ...and others, that profanity can hurt, offend, and disgust, and you'll be doing the best you can...And save your parental giggling over mispronounced curses for after the children's bedtime.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Parenting is not logical. If it were, we would never have to read a book, never need a family therapist, and never feel the urge t...o call a close friend late at night for support after a particularly trying bedtime scene. . . . We have moments of logic, but life is run by a much larger force. Life is filled with disagreement, opposition, illusion, irrational thinking, miracle, meaning, surprise, and wonder.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are three main parenting jobs: getting your kid to go to sleep without bedtime problems, getting your kid to eat without bei...ng finicky, and getting your kid toilet trained. Nobody I know has scored three out of three.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have To wear away this long age of three hours... Between our after-supper and bedtime?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Many mothers believe that unless they're having heart-to-hearts (like those Supermoms on TV) they're doing something wrong. True a... conversation in the midst of ... driving to pick up pizza doesn't have the same official stamp of "intimacy" as snuggling ... or having a quiet talk at bedtime. But this is when kids naturally open up. The best you can do is accept that the most important information you'll get will be in the form of a two-minute sound bite dropped in your lap when you least expect it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I died before bedtime came But my womb was bellowing... And I felt with my bare fall A blazing red harsh head tear up And the dear floods of his hair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Goldilocks [There] lived a family of bears ... together anthropomorphically in a little cottage as a nuclear family. They wer...e very sorry about this, of course, since the nuclear family has traditionally served to enslave womyn, instill a self-righteous moralism in its members, and imprint rigid notions of heterosexualist roles onto the next generation. [They named] their offspring the non-gender-specific "Baby."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »