One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silve...r faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women will not advance except by joining together in cooperative action.... Unlike other groups, women do not need to set affiliat...ion and strength in opposition one against the other. We can readily integrate the two, search for more and better ways to use affiliation to enhance strength--and strength to enhance affiliation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A preschool child does not emerge from your toddler on a given date or birthday. He becomes a child when he ceases to be a wayward..., confusing, unpredictable and often balky person-in-the- making, and becomes a comparatively cooperative, eager-and-easy-to-please real human being--at least 60 per cent of the time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then we grow up to be Daddy. Domesticated men with undomesticated, frontier dreams. Suddenly life--or is it the children?--is not ...as cooperative as it ought to be. It's tough to be in command of anything when a baby is crying or a ten-year-old is in despair. It's tough to feel a sense of control when you've got to stop six times during the half-hour ride to Grandma's.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No child ever has too much self-esteem. If you take every possible opportunity to point out what children do well, praise them des...criptively for it and express appreciation, your child will become more cooperative, competent and confident.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Parents who are cowed by temper tantrums and screaming defiance are only inviting more of the same. Young children become more coo...perative with parents who confidently assert the reasons for their demands and enforce reasonable rules. Even if there are a few rough spots, relationships between parents and young children run more smoothly when the parent, rather than the child, is in control.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We didn't want any men in our group. They drink their loans, they don't work their stores. Why should we have to pay for their irr...esponsibilities?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »