Parenting can be established as a time-share job, but mothers are less good "switching off" their parent identity and turning to s...omething else. Many women envy the father's ability to set clear boundaries between home and work, between being an on-duty and an off-duty parent.... Women work very hard to maintain a closeness to their child. Father's value intimacy with a child, but often do not know how to work to maintain it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In Western Europe people perish from the congestion and stifling closeness, but with us it is from the spaciousness.... The expans...es are so great that the little man hasn't the resources to orient himself.... This is what I think about Russian suicides.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You can make lots of mistakes, but if you give children avenues for creativity and joy, they will have resources to carry them thr...ough. For example, if cooking together, reading, listening to music, coloring, participating in sports, or taking a walk in the woods are paired with pleasure and closeness, throughout life doing these things will kindle old feelings of happiness an/or comfort.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its succ...ess.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Your children are not here to fill the void left by marital dissatisfaction and disengagement. They are not to be utilized as a su...bstitute for adult-adult intimacy. They are not in this world in order to satisfy a wife's or a husband's need for love, closeness or a sense of worth. A child's task is to fully develop his/her emerging self. When we place our children in the position of satisfying our needs, we rob them of their childhood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man's fatherliness is enriched as much by his acceptance of his feminine and childlike strivings as it is by his memories of ten...der closeness with his own father. A man who has been able to accept tenderness from his father is able later in life to be tender with his own children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Allowing children to spew forth whatever is on their minds in the name of openness only creates an illusion of family closeness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observ...ed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He was a thing to her so foul that all her feminine nature recoiled from the closeness of his presence, and her flesh crept as she... felt that the same atmosphere encompassed them. And this man was to be her husband!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »