When you go apartment-hunting in the South, you encounter little old ladies who ask you if you use strong drink. In New York you e...ncounter paranoids who wonder if you will commit suicide--not that they care; what they worry about is blood on their fresh paint, a dubious smell in the hallway, or a hole in the awning as you pass through on your way to the sidewalk. The Southerner who moves to any part of the country has problems, but the culture shock that attacks the Southerner who moves North is almost indescribable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There's one basic rule you should remember about development charts that will save you countless hours of worry.... The fact that ...a child passes through a particular developmental stage is always more important than the age of that child when he or she does it. In the long run, it really doesn't matter whether you learn to walk at ten months or fifteen months--as long as you learn how to walk.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unless your baby becomes uncomfortable and tries to push away, don't worry that you're cuddling too much. That way, when she reach...es adolescence and goes through a normal period of being terribly embarrassed even to be seen with you in public, you'll have some memories to tide you over until she comes around again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You've got many refinements. I don't think you need to worry about your failure at long division. I mean, after all, you got throu...gh short division, and short division is all that a lady ought to be called on to cope with.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Father Latour judged that, just as it was the white man's way to assert himself in any landscape, to change it, make it over a lit...tle (at least to leave some mark of memorial of his sojourn), it was the Indian's way to pass through a country without disturbing anything; to pass and leave no trace, like fish through the water, or birds through the air. It was the Indian manner to vanish into the landscape, not to stand out against it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
my father moved through dooms of love through sames of am through haves of give,... singing each morning out of each night my father moved through depths of heightLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Face your own ambivalence about letting go and you will be better able to help you children cope with their own feelings. The insi...ght you gain through your own acceptance of change will bolster your confidence and make you a stronger college parent. The confidence you develop will be evident to your child, who will be able to move away from you without fear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »