Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more yo...u feel like giving.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A family's responses to crisis or to a new situation mirror those of a child. That is to say, the way a small child deals with a n...ew challenge (for instance, learning to walk) has certain predictable stages: regression, anxiety, mastery, new energy, growth, and feedback for future achievement. These stages can also be seen in adults coping with new life events, whether positive or negative.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Children who grow up in stimulating, emotionally supportive, highly verbal, and protective environments where the caretaker teache...s and models skill development are usually ready for school. When the child is able to meet expectations, he or she receives praise or a positive feedback in school. This also compliments the caretaker--a child-rearing job well done. The caretaker or parent and school people feel good about each other. The child receives a message from parents that the school program is good. The positive emotional bond between parents and child is extended to the school. The school staff can then serve as parent surrogates. This facilitates learning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His ugliness was the stuff of legend. In an age of affordable beauty, there was something heraldic about his lack of it. The antiq...ue arm whined as he reached for another mug. It was a Russian military prosthesis, a seven-function force-feedback manipulator, cased in grubby pink plastic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a play ... a psychological loop is established between performers and audience. Nothing like this can occur in a movie theater.... The images on the screen are patterns of light, not living actors. They are not affected by applause or hissing. They will be the same in a packed house or an empty one. And they will be the same every time the movie is shown. This affects the audience. Occasionally, movie audiences applaud or hiss or walk out, but for the most part they are passive. No social bond between the audience and the actors can exist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of course children benefit from positive feedback. But praise and rewards are not the only methods of reinforcement. More emphasis... should be place on appreciation--reinforcement related explicitly and directly to the content of the child's interest and efforts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The problem of invisibility, the incredible deficit of self- esteem that full-time mothers describe, seems to come with the territ...ory. Day in and day out, the feedback from their spouse and kids suggests they are part of the woodwork, with no intelligence to illuminate a homework question or share any insights on politics. . . . When no one recognizes or applauds their amazing juggling act, they perforce derive their sense of self-worth from being ringmaster--someone not necessarily talented but indisputably in charge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For weeks or months they moved through their separate lives and slept side by side as though they were two strangers who had mista...kenly been assigned the same hotel room. And then something would happen and he would find himself staring at her as though he could see the soul of her, looking for an end to his troubles inside the loop of her arms, and he would be snagged with the fishhook of herself, with the barbed hook of his powerless infatuation with something that she seemed to have, some answer that she seemed to offer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »