The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American s...elf-assurance which so irritated Dickens.... Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians ... have attempted to exploit it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Much of what contrives to create critical moments in parenting stems from a fundamental misunderstanding as to what the child is c...apable of at any given age. If a parent misjudges a child's limitations as well as his own abilities, the potential exists for unreasonable expectations, frustration, disappointment and an unrealistic belief that what the child really needs is to be punished.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As a parent, you will often serve as an inadvertent example to your child. A child will model himself after you in many areas: how... you deal with frustration, settle disagreements and cope with not being able to have the things that you want, to name just three.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Although we like to think of young children's lives as free of troubles, they are in fact filled with disappointment and frustrati...on. Children wish for so much, but can arrange so little of their own lives, which are so often dominated by adults without sympathy for the children's priorities. That is why children have a much greater need for daydreams than adults do. And because their lives have been relatively limited they have a greater need for material from which to form daydreams.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our basic ideas about how to parent are encrusted with deeply felt emotions and many myths. One of the myths of parenting is that ...it is always fun and games, joy and delight. Everyone who has been a parent will testify that it is also anxiety, strife, frustration, and even hostility. Thus most major parenting- education formats deal with parental emotions and attitudes and, to a greater or lesser extent, advocate that the emotional component is more important than the knowledge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we study human language, we are approaching what some might call the 'human essence,' the distinctive qualities of mind that ...are, so far as we know, unique to man and that are inseparable from any critical phase of human existence, personal or social. Hence the fascination of this study, and, no less, its frustration. The frustration arises from the coming to grips with the core problem of human language, which I take to be this: having mastered a language, one is able to understand an indefinite number of expressions that are new to one's experience, that bear no simply physical resemblance and are in no simple way analogous to the expressions that constitute one's linguistic experience; and one is able ... to produce such expressions on an appropriate occasion, despite their novelty.... The normal use of language is, in this sense, a creative activity. This creative aspect of normal language use is one fundamental factor that distinguishes human language from any known system of animal communication.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The young love and cherish people and places from which they receive the skills and the emotional support which enable them to mak...e it in the world or to meet their basic human needs. The same people and places are often the first recipients of the frustration and anger--violence, vandalism, disrespect--of young people who are not making it well in the world. I suspect that this is the reason that personal and school property violence is increasing more rapidly than school burglary and dropout rates.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While most of today's jobs do not require great intelligence, they do require greater frustration tolerance, personal discipline, ...organization, management, and interpersonal skills than were required two decades and more ago. These are precisely the skills that many of the young people who are staying in school today, as opposed to two decades ago, lack.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Family life is full of angry situations. That's especially true because of all the voices we have in the back of our heads telling... us about the things we should be doing and should be feeling: spouses should love each other; parents should feel nothing but love for their children; children should be respectful of adults; our children shouldn't be acting the way they are; we shouldn't be feeling the way we do. The conflict each of us experiences between what we really feel and how we think we ought to feel is the cause of much guilt and frustration.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "...mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »