“I believe babies are born as innovative personalities... But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning.” BelieveI BelieveSocialProcessBornLearningTeachingBabyPersonalityExplorationQuestioningStampsInnovative Author:Jay Wright Forrester
“The major break in the understanding of manliness is not between, say, the nineteenth century and any particular preceding era but between my generation of Baby Boomers and the entire proceeding complex of teachings. In some ways, TR and Churchill have more in common with Homer and Shakespeare than they do with us.” MenWayUnderstandingCommonBreakGenerationsTeachingCenturyParticularBabyMajorsComplexesErasManhoodMy GenerationNineteenth CenturyProceedingManlinessBoomersBaby Boomer Author:Waller R Newell
“Love liberates. Love - not sentimentality, not mush - but true love gives you enough courage that you can say to somebody, "Don't do that, baby." And the person will know you're not preaching but teaching.” KnowsGivingPersonsEnoughTeachingBabyPreachingSentimentality Author:Maya Angelou
“God, there's teaching biology and teaching sexuality, and it's two separate things. They mix it and make it more of a morality thing where it's like, "A man and woman have a baby."” MenTwoTeachingBabyMoralityMen And WomenSexualityBiology Author:Jen Kirkman
“Alix [ MacKenzie] had stopped teaching because we had a child and she stayed home to take care of the baby, and I taught.” ChildrenHomeCareTeachingTaughtBabyTake Care Author:Warren MacKenzie
“Actually, on a slightly more serious but kind of parallel level, I remember being on Loveline before both hosts ascended into loftier places in the culture. But I remember being shocked by Dr. Drew. He went into this extended monologue about how anyone with a baby voice is probably the victim of child abuse or has some daddy issue. As an intellectually curious person, all I could think is that there isn't any clinical evidence about that. But to be the guy wearing the doctor's hat on the radio and teaching everybody about this? It just seemed like a parody of good advice.” ThinkingKindChildrenRememberGuyCultureTeachingAdviceSeriousBabyEvidenceAbuseVictimCuriousHostChild AbuseDaddyGood Advice Author:John Flansburgh