The best thing about Sassy Seats is that grandmothers cannot figure out how they work and are in constant fear of the child's fall...ing. This often makes them forget to comment on other aspects of the child's development, like why he is not yet talking or is still wearing diapers. Some grandmothers will spend an entire meal peering beneath the table and saying, "Is that thing steady?" rather than, "Have you had a doctor look at that left hand?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Parenthood has really changed for me. It's much more than taking care of my son; more than saying yes and no. Now I have to figure... out what I think and what I know so that I can answer his questions and explain things to him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The wisest thing a parent can do is to let preschool children figure out themselves how to draw the human figure, or solve a whole... range of problems, from overcoming Saturday-morning boredom to dealing with a neighborhood bully. But even while standing on the sidelines, parents can frequently offer support in helping children discover what they want to accomplish.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mining today is an affair of mathematics, of finance, of the latest in engineering skill. Cautious men behind polished desks in Sa...n Francisco figure out in advance the amount of metal to a cubic yard, the number of yards washed a day, the cost of each operation. They have no need of grubstakes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan, "Adoption, not Abortion," although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert couns...eling, how to use adoption as a method of birth control, or at what time of the month it is most effective.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Adults have their defense against time; it is called "responsibility," and once one assumes it he can transform his life into a se...t of routines which will account for all those hours when he is stale or tired. It is not size or age or childishness that separates children from adults. It is "responsibility." Adults come in all sizes, ages, and differing varieties of childishness, but as long as they have "responsibility" we recognize, often by the light gone out of their eyes, that they are what we call grownup. When grownups cope with "responsibility" for enough number of years they are retired from it. They are given, in exchange, a "leisure problem." They sit around with their "leisure problem" and try to figure out what to do with it. Sometimes they go crazy. Sometimes they get other jobs. Sometimes it gets too much for them and they die. They have been handed an undetermined future of nonresponsible time and they don't know what to do about it. And that is precisely the way it is with children. Time is the everpresent factor in their lives. It passes slowly or fast, always against their best interests: good time is over in a minute; bad time takes forever. Short on "responsibility," they are confronted with a "leisure problem."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Young children make only the simple assumption: "This is life--you go along...." He stands ready to go along with whatever adults ...seem to want. He stands poised, trying to figure out what they want. The young child is almost at the mercy of adults--it is so important to him to please.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It didn't take elaborate experiments to deduce that an infant would die from want of food. But it took centuries to figure out tha...t infants can and do perish from want of love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »