Adolescents do get very angry with their parents, and acknowledging this anger is part of acknowledging them. If the anger is not ...acknowledged then its expression is increased. The parent seems super-strong. The adolescent tries to become the super-attacker.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A journal intime is a super-confidante to whom everything is told and confessed. For an engaged or married man to have a secret su...per-confidante who knows things which are concealed from his lady seems to me to be deliberate infidelity. I am as it were engaged to two women and one of them is being deceived...I would have my wife know all about me and if I cannot be loved for what I surely am, I do not want to be loved for what I am not. If I continue to write therefore she shall read what I have written.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As parents it is well to be aware of the tendency to equate energetic activity with contest. Our children's worth does not depend ...on their ability to trounce one another. And surely we can find ways of frolicking and being healthy and active together in some joyful, free way that is not an adversary relationship.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can ...be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His brain is absolutely larger, but... whether or not proportionally to his larger body, has not, I believe, been fully ascertained. In woman the face is rounder; the jaws and the base of skull smaller; the outlines of the body rounder, in parts more prominent; and her pelvis is broader than in man; but this latter character may perhaps be considered rather as a primary than a secondary sexual character. She comes to maturity at an earlier age than man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Preschoolers sound much brighter and more knowledgeable than they really are, which is why so many parents and grandparents are so... sure their progeny are gifted and super-bright. Because children's questions sound so mature and sophisticated, we are tempted to answer them at a level of abstraction far beyond the child's level of comprehension. That is a temptation we should resist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage, and of attempts, which intimidate ...the pale scholar.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The energetic action of the times develops individualism, and the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right dir...ection. Heaven deals with us on no representative system. Souls are not saved in bundles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »