“Disney World has acquired by now something of the air of a national shrine. American parents who don't take their children there sense obscurely that they have failed in some fundamental way, like Muslims who never made it to Mecca.” WorldWayChildrenMadeParentAirFundamentalsMade ItShrinesMecca Book:America: A User's Guide Source: America: A User's Guide
“As a child, I probably knew phrases that other children didn't known, like "pitocin drip" or "myocardial infarction." Some kind of knowledge was always in the air. My parents would always talk about science at the dinner table, saying something about this patient or some other patient. So I guess for a nanosecond in early high school, I thought about going into medicine.” KindChildrenSchoolParentKnownAirHigh SchoolTablesMedicinePatientDinnerPhrasesDinner Table Author:M. Night Shyamalan
“When you become a parent you're endlessly obsessed with chatting to other moms and learning how they make it work - keep all the balls in the air if you like - because we all want to know how to be the best mom that we possibly can be.” IfsKnowsWantParentKnow HowAirMomBallsObsessedBeing The BestChattingBest Mom Author:Tess Daly
“First of all, women inherently, I think, are quite capable of having lots of balls in the air. And so, like, it's all those skills you use; you analyze the problem, figure out your tools, and then go at it piece by piece.... It's like what you have to do in the morning to get your kids out the door [if you're a parent]. The skills are, I believe, the same. The patience issues are the same.” IfsThinkingFirstsBelieveUseProblemKidsI BelieveParentMorningIssuesPiecesDoorsAirFiguresSkillsCapableToolsBalls Author:Sylvia Mathews Burwell
“The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.” GivingLooksChildrenPassionParentAirWorstSlaveStormCirclesTyrannyEducatedWrath Book:Notes on the State of Virginia Source: Notes on the State of Virginia
“On the other hand, there are plenty of red flags that link developmental disabilities to things like lead and mercury and pesticides and air pollution and certain kinds of unhealthy foods, and that's what's begging for a comprehensive and definitive study. We should have a long-term prospectus study that looks at all, you know, exposures, medications, life habits, etc., pollution, and traces people over a period of many years, starting with when - starting with their parents, from when they are healthy. This is how we learned what causes heart disease.” PeopleKnowsShouldYearsLooksHeartKindLongHandsCertainCausesParentTermStudyAirHabitPeriodsHealthyDiseaseRedShould HaveStartingPlentyLong TermEtcLinksDisabilityFlagsPollutionExposureComprehensiveBeggingUnhealthyMedicationMercuryHeart DiseaseHealthy FoodDevelopmentalPesticidesRed FlagsAir PollutionUnhealthy FoodDevelopmental Disabilities Author:Jill Stein
“As a child, I remember asking my parents when I was five years old, "How come if you are not Zionists, you came to the country?" I was surprised at myself that I asked this question. It means that it was always in the air. Then years later I understood it was because of the Holocaust, because they were refugees. They did not come as immigrants and, because of the illusions of the '50s and the late '40s, my mother said, "The world must be better." She could not imagine that it wouldn't be different.” IfsWorldYearsMeanChildrenSaidDifferentCountryRememberMotherParentFiveImagineAirLateIllusionUnderstoodAskingFive YearsImmigrantsHolocaustImagine ThatRefugeeZionistFive Year Olds Author:Amira Hass