Any one who knows what the worth of family affection is among the lower classes, and who has seen the array of little portraits st...uck over a labourer's fireplace ... will perhaps feel with me that in counteracting the tendencies, social and industrial, which every day are sapping the healthier family affections, the sixpenny photograph is doing more for the poor than all the philanthropists in the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Pop" Wyman ruled here with a firm but gentle hand; no drunken man was ever served at the bar; no married man was allowed to play ...at the tables; across the face of the large clock was written "Please Don't Swear," and over the orchestra appeared the gentle admonition, "Don't Shoot the Pianist--He's Doing His Damndest."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Abbe Goussault, a counsellor at High Court, writes [at the end of the 17th century]: "Familiarizing oneself with one's childre...n, getting them to talk about all manner of things, treating them as sensible people and winning them over with sweetness, is an infallible secret for doing what one wants with them. . . . A few caresses, a few little presents, a few words of cordiality and trust make an impression on their minds, and they are few in number that resist these sweet and easy methods of making them persons of honour and probity."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The good enough mother, owing to her deep empathy with her infant, reflects in her face his feelings; this is why he sees himself ...in her face as if in a mirror and finds himself as he sees himself in her. The not good enough mother fails to reflect the infant's feelings in her face because she is too preoccupied with her own concerns, such as her worries over whether she is doing right by her child, her anxiety that she might fail him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Young, and so thin, and so straight. So straight! as if nothing could ever bend her.... But poor men would bend her, and doing things with poor men, Being much in bed, and babies would bend her over, And the rest of things in life that were for poor women, Coming to them grinning and pretty with intent to bend and to kill.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 »
People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it does...n't go to my head.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast. Is some dish brought to you? Then put forth your hand and hel...p yourself in seemly fashion. Does it pass you by? Then do not hold it back. Has it not yet come to you? Then do not stretch out for it at a distance, but wait till it is at your hand. And thus doing with regard to children, and wife, and authority, and wealth, you will be a worthy guest at the table of the gods. And if you even pass over things that are offered to you, and refuse to take of them, then you will not only share the banquet of the gods, but also their dominion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a si...n, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for "doing the best" for his children?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The experience of a sense of guilt for wrong-doing is necessary for the development of self-control. The guilt feelings will later... serve as a warning signal which the child can produce himself when an impulse to repeat the naughty act comes over him. When the child can produce his on warning signals, independent of the actual presence of the adult, he is on the way to developing a conscience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »