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"I had massive anxiety as a child. I was in therapy. From 8 to 10, I was borderline agora-phobic. I could not leave my mom's side. There was a lot of fear, but it was also very exciting."
"What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction."
"Circulating through the children's ward and seeing terminally ill kids, heads shaved, smiling and having a ball despite the tubes and needles sticking into them, I thought: What do I have to worry about? If God takes me, at least I've lived for 35 years."
"Spit fire from my hammer like I wasn't God's child."
"The mother's and father's attitudes toward the child correspond to the child's own needs.... Mother has the function of making himsecure in life, father has the function of teaching him, guiding him to cope with those problems with which the particular society the child has been born into confronts him."
"The narcissistic, the domineering, the possessive woman can succeed in being a "loving" mother as long as the child is small. Only the really loving woman, the woman who is happier in giving than in taking, who is firmly rooted in her own existence, can be a loving mother when the child is in the process of separation."
"If I raised my hand to wipe the hair out of my children's eyes, they'd flinch and call their attorney."
"My son did not show signs of a money deficiency until he opened his small fist in the nursery and found it was empty."
"Grandmas can shed the yoke of responsibility, relax and enjoy their grandchildren in a way that was not possible when they were raising their own children. And they can glow in the realisation that here is their seed of life that will harvest generations to come."
"Adults can take a simple holiday for Children and screw it up. What began as a presentation of simple gifts to delight and surprise children around the Christmas tree has culminated in a woman unwrapping six shrimp forks from her dog, who drew her name."
"We wondered why when a child laughed, he belonged to Daddy, and when he had a sagging diaper that smelled like a landfill, 'He wants his mother.'"
"I'm going to stop punishing my children by saying, “Never mind! I'll do it myself."
"I have never understood, for example, how come a child can climb up on the roof, scale the TV antenna, and rescue the cat ... yet cannot walk down the hallway without grabbing both walls with his grubby hands for balance."
"I think it's time we women stopped carrying supplies for the entire family. If children don't have room to carry their own toys, if men don't have pockets in their pants, tougho."
"Babies on television never spit up on the Ultrasuede."
"Phrases and their actual meanings: My teacher has never liked me. Expect a phone call before lunch from the teacher informing you that your child has been launching hot dogs by compressing them inside a small Thermos and then removing the lid quickly."
"Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best."
"To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children."
"I got so much food spit back in my face when my kids were small, I put windshield wipers on my glasses."
"A child develops individuality long before he develops taste."
