“One of the most essential and mundane of human activities - taking care of children - requires high levels of anxious vigilance. ... [Parents] dare not risk assuming that the sudden quiet from the toddlers' room means they are studying with Baby Einstein. Visualize fratricidal stranglings and electric outlets stabbed with forks: this is how we have reproduced our genomes.” HumansMeanChildrenCareParentLevelsRoomsStudyRiskBabyActivityQuietEssentialsAssumingDareAnxiousElectricOutletsMundaneForksHigh LevelHuman ActivityVigilanceToddlerGenomeStrangling Author:Barbara Ehrenreich
“Babies and toddlers are mostly what I've been exposed to at this point. I'm hoping parenting just gets much easier after this. It does, right?” DoeBabyEasierExposedToddler Book:Dad Is Fat Source: Dad Is Fat
“The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my familys relationship with each other.” NeedsSelfBabyConstantSense Of SelfToddlerDrained Author:Mika Brzezinski
“Dr. [Paula] Menyuk and her co-workers [at Boston University's School of Education] found that parents who supplied babies with a steady stream of information were not necessarily helpful. Rather, early, rich language skills were more likely to develop when parents provided lots of opportunities for their infants and toddlers to "talk" and when parents listened and responded to the babies' communications.” SchoolFoundOpportunityLanguageParentRichInformationCommunicationBabySkillsWorkersUniversityStreamsHelpfulSteadyDrsInfantBostonToddlerCo WorkerLanguage SkillsBoston University Author:Jane Brody
“Comfort is everything. You start doing something and you want it to be perfect right away, but most babies are born ugly and then they shake it out and you get beautiful toddlers.” WantBeautifulBornPerfectBabyComfortUglyShakesToddler Author:John Mulaney
“Isn't it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.” ThinkingKnowsChildrenSometimesYoungLosesBreakLaughingFourBabyAdultsAverageYoung ChildrenToddler Author:Joel Osteen
“When I ask how old your toddler is, I don't need to hear '27 months.' 'He's two' will do just fine. He's not a cheese. And I didn't really care in the first place.” NeedsFirstsTwoCareFunnyAsksBabyFineMonthsCheeseToddler Author:George Carlin
“You speak baby gibberish?' asked Jack. 'Fluently. The adult-education center ran a course, and I have a lot of time on my hands.' 'So what did he say?' 'I don't know.' 'I thought you said you spoke gibberish?' 'I do. But your baby doesn't. I think he's speaking either pre-toddler nonsense, a form of infact burble or an obscure dialect of gobbledygook. In any event, I can't understand a word he's saying.' 'Oh.” ThinkingKnowsSaidI CanHandsFormCoursesSpeakEventsBabyAdultsRanNonsenseSpokesObscureToddlerDialectAdult Education Author:Jasper Fforde