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“Here's an idea: eat like an adult. Stop eating fast food, stop eating kid's cereal, knock it off with all the sweets and comfort foods, and ease up on the snacking. And don't act like you don't know this: eat more vegetables and fruits. Really, how difficult is this? Stop with the whining. Stop with the excuses. Act like an adult and stop eating like a television commercial. Grow up.”

“The first book by an African American I read was Carl T. Rowan's memoir, Go South to Sorrow. I found it on the bookshelf at the back of my fifth-grade classroom, an adult book. I can remember the quality of the morning on which I read. It was a sunlit morning in January, a Saturday morning, cold, high, empty. I sat in a rectangle of sunlight, near the grate of the floor heater in the yellow bedroom. And as I read, I became aware of warmth and comfort and optimism. I was made aware of my comfort by the knowledge that others were not, are not, comforted. Carl Rowan at my age was not comforted.”

“Personal change, growth, development, identity formation--these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as part of adult life as well. Gone is the belief that adulthood is, or ought to be, a time of internal peace and comfort, that growing pains belong only to the young; gone the belief that these are marker events--a job, a mate, a child--through which we will pass into a life of relative ease.”

“Our kids are not here to comfort us, to entertain us, or to validate us. Those things need to come from ourselves and from other adults.”

Needs Kids Comfort Adults

Book:The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World

Source: The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World

“It helps parents to feel better if we remind them of our failures with them! And how they turned out just fine despite our imperfections.... We never get over needing nurturing parents. The more we comfort our own adult children, the more they can comfort our grandchildren.”

Ifs Feels Children Helping Parent Fine Comfort Adults Despite Parenthood Imperfection Feel Better Get Over Grandchildren Nurturing Adult Children

Author:Eda LeShan

“Nuclear war would mean abolition of most comforts, and disruption of normal routines, for children and adults alike.”

Mean Children War Comfort Normal Adults Nuclear Disruption Abolition Nuclear War

Author:Willard Libby

“The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging.”

Objects Bears Comfort Adults Phones Cells Belonging Cell Phone Teddy Toddler Teddy Bear

Author:Margaret Heffernan

“A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns for comfort to its mother; nor an adult who turns to his fellow "for company." Those, whether children or adults, who do so least are not usually the most selfless.”

Children Mother Turns Company Comfort Demand Ordinary Adults Fellows Affection Selfish Horrible Selfless Ordinary Life Horrible Things

Book:The Four Loves

Source: The Four Loves

“We are accustomed to repeating the cliché, and to believing, that 'our most precious resource is our children.' But we have plenty of children to go around, God knows, and as with Doritos, we can always make more. The true scarcity we face is practicing adults, of people who know how marginal, how fragile, how finite their lives and their stories and their ambitions really are but who find value in this knowledge, even a sense of strange comfort, because they know their condition is universal, is shared.”

“It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying. One can comfort a person who is crying which enables him to relax and makes further crying unnecessary; but to humiliate a crying child is to increase his pain, and augment his rigidity. We stop other people from crying because we cannot stand the sounds and movements of their bodies. It threatens our own rigidity. It induces similar feelings in ourselves which we dare not express and it evokes a resonance in our own bodies which we resist.”

People Children Persons Feelings Body Pain Sound Cry Movement Tears Comfort Adults Increase Injustice Dare Graves Relax Unnecessary Evoke Resonance Rigidity Humiliate Crying Child

Author:Alexander Lowen

“[I]f we can bring our children understanding, comfort, and hopefulness when they need this kind of support, then they are more likely to grow into adults who can find these resources within themselves later on. (from the introduction)”

Needs Kind Children Grows Understanding Support Comfort Adults Resources Our Children Introduction Hopefulness

Book:Mr Rogers Parenting

Source: Mr Rogers Parenting

“Adults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them.”

Should Mother Comfort Adults

Author:Neil Gaiman