My consciousness-raising group is still going on. Every Monday night it meets, somewhere in Greenwich Village, and it drinks a lot... of red wine and eats a lot of cheese. A friend of mine who is in it tells me that at the last meeting, each of the women took her turn to explain, in considerable detail, what she was planning to stuff her Thanksgiving turkey with. I no longer go to the group.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Consciousness-raising is at the very least supposed to bring about an intimacy, but what it seems instead to bring about are the t...rappings of intimacy, the illusion of intimacy, a semblance of intimacy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Too often I hear people say, "Well, at least so-and-so is a good person." When did being a good person become the least thing we c...an say about another? And are we raising children who will someday find that this is the least thing they can say about themselves?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our most important task as parents is raising children who will be decent, responsible, and caring people devoted to making this w...orld a more compassionate placeLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is easy to lose confidence in our natural ability to raise children. The true techniques for raising children are simple: Be wi...th them, play with them, talk to them. You are not squandering their time no matter what the latest child development books say about "purposeful play" and "cognitive learning skills."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... so large a portion of those who hold much capital, instead of using their various advantages for the greatest good of those ar...ound them, employ the chief of them for mere selfish indulgences; thus inflicting as much mischief on themselves, as results to others from their culpable neglect. A great portion of the rich seem to be acting on the principle, that the more God bestows on them, the less are they under obligation to practise any self-denial, in fulfilling his benevolent plan of raising our race to intelligence and holiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The care of a house, the conduct of a home, the management of children, the instruction and government of servants, are as deservi...ng of scientific treatment and scientific professors and lectureships as are the care of farms, the management of manure and crops, and the raising and care of stock.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The only effective way to help well-intentioned, intelligent persons to do the best they can in raising children is to encourage a...nd guide them always to do their own thinking in their attempts at understanding and dealing with child-rearing situations and problems, and not to rely blindly on the opinions of others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »