Unless your baby becomes uncomfortable and tries to push away, don't worry that you're cuddling too much. That way, when she reach...es adolescence and goes through a normal period of being terribly embarrassed even to be seen with you in public, you'll have some memories to tide you over until she comes around again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In different life prints, stress will be felt intensely at different times. The woman who is trying to juggle young children and a... demanding job may feel the most pressure in her late twenties and early thirties, but by her forties her investment in the job will be paying off and the demands of the family will be lessening. The woman who has been a homemaker in a very traditional pattern may experience a great deal of stress around the issue of redefining her life as the active role of mothering comes to an end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But a dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down--very important traits in times l...ike these. In fact, just as soon as a dog comes along who, in addition to these qualities, also knows when to buy and sell stocks, he can be moved right up to the boy's bedroom and the boy can sleep in the dog house.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So that's why you're green around the gills. Spring comes to the bushveldt, the young bucks start butting their heads together.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tell mother that however dogs and samovars might behave themselves, winter comes after summer, old age after youth, and misfortune... follows happiness (or the other way around). A person can not be healthy and cheerful throughout life. Losses lie waiting and man can not safeguard against death, even if he be Alexander of Macedonia. One must be prepared for anything and consider everything to be inevitably essential, as sad as that may be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of the most difficult aspects of being a parent during the middle years is feeling powerless to protect our children from hurt.... However "growthful" it may be for them to experience failure, disappointment and rejection, it is nearly impossible to maintain an intellectual perspective when our sobbing child or rageful child comes in to us for help. . . . We can't turn the hurt around by kissing the sore spot to make it better. We are no longer the all-powerful parent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The light by which we see in this world comes out from the soul of the observer. Wherever any noble sentiment dwelt, it made the f...aces and houses around to shine. Nay, the powers of this busy brain are miraculous and illimitable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the tropics the white feels weakened, or downright weak, whence comes the heightened tendency to outbursts of aggression. Peopl...e who are polite, modest or even humble in Europe fall easily into a rage here, get into fights, destroy other people, start feuds, fall prey to megalomania, grow touchy about their prestige and significance and go around completely devoid of self-criticism, bragging about the position and the influence they have at home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Landlord is a gentleman ... who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that receive for him. He does not... even take the trouble to spend his wealth. He has a host of people around him to do the actual spending. He never sees it until he comes to enjoy it. His sole function, his chief pride, is the stately consumption of wealth produced by others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universa...l and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »