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“Jealousy is like a hot pepper. Use it mildly, and you add spice to the relationship. Use too much of it and it can burn.”

Book:Romantic Jealousy: Causes, Symptoms, Cures

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Romantic Jealousy: Causes, Symptoms, Cures

This book delves into the complex nature of romantic jealousy, analyzing its psychological and emotional causes, common symptoms, and strategies for overcoming it. more

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Ayala Malakh-Pines

Ayala Malakh-Pines, born in July 1945, is a well-known figure whose identity and category remain unclear. more

“If our entertainment culture seems debased and unsatisfying, the hope is that our children will create something of greater worth.But it is as if we expect them to create out of nothing, like God, for the encouragement of creativity is in the popular mind, opposed to instruction. There is little sense that creativity must grow out of tradition, even when it is critical of that tradition, and children are scarcely being given the materials on which their creativity could work”

Ifs Mind Children Littles Seems Culture Given Grows Creativity Greater Materials Tradition Encouragement Our Children Entertainment Critical Instruction

Author:C. Sommerville

“Without a sense of the shame or guilt of his or her action, the child will only be hardened in rebellion by physical punishment. Shame (and praise) help the child to internalize the parent's judgment. It impresses upon the child that the parent is not only more powerful but also right. Like the Puritans, Locke (in 1690), wanted the child to adopt the parent's moral position, rather than simply bow to superior strength or social pressure.”

Children Helping Action Wanted Social Parent Powerful Moral Position Judgment Pressure Praise Shame Guilt Punishment Superiors Rebellion Bows Impress Puritan Hardened Social Pressure

Author:C. Sommerville

“Ambivalence reaches the level of schizophrenia in our treatment of violence among the young. Parents do not encourage violence, but neither do they take up arms against the industries which encourage it. Parents hide their eyes from the books and comics, slasher films, videos and lyrics which form the texture of an adolescent culture. While all successful societies have inhibited instinct, ours encourages it. Or at least we profess ourselves powerless to interfere with it.”

Book Eye Film Form Young Culture Parent Levels Successful Violence Arms Industry Instinct Video Treatment Interfere Adolescence Powerless Texture Schizophrenia Ambivalence Young Parents

Author:C. Sommerville

“Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child's life were crucial. Education should start earlier than age seven, within the family. It should not be so hard as to give the child an aversion to learning. Rather, these early lessons would take the form of play--that embryonic notion of kindergarten.”

Giving Should Years Children Hard Play Age Form Childhood Lessons Seven Notion Educational Crucial Rome Aversion Kindergarten Early Childhood Early Childhood Education

Author:C. Sommerville

“Parents are used to being made to feel guilty about...their contribution to the population problem, the school tax burden, and declining test scores. They expect to be blamed by teachers and psychologists, if not by police. And they will be blamed by the children themselves. It is hardy a wonder, then, that they withdraw into what used to be called "permissiveness" but is really neglect.”

“We like the idea of childhood but are not always crazy about the kids we know. We like it, that is, when we are imagining our ownchildhoods. So part of our apparent appreciation of youth is simply envy.”

Knows Ideas Kids Crazy Childhood Youth Appreciation Envy

Author:C. Sommerville

“The person who designed a robot that could act and think as well as your four-year-old would deserve a Nobel Prize. But there is no public recognition for bringing up several truly human beings.”

Thinking Years Humans Wells Persons Human Beings Four Deserve Recognition Prize Four Years Robots Nobel Nobel Prize

Author:C. Sommerville

“Could it be that those who were reared in the postwar years really were spoiled, as we used to hear? Did a child-centered generation, raised in depression and war, produce a self-centered generation that resents children and parenthood?”

Years Children War Self Used Generations Produce Raised Parenthood Self Centered Spoiled Resent

Author:C. Sommerville

“In the years of the Roman Republic, before the Christian era, Roman education was meant to produce those character traits that would make the ideal family man. Children were taught primarily to be good to their families. To revere gods, one's parents, and the laws of the state were the primary lessons for Roman boys. Cicero described the goal of their child rearing as "self- control, combined with dutiful affection to parents, and kindliness to kindred.”

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