“Babies learn most of what they know from interactions with their parents, but not of the formal, instructional variety. Babies learn from spontaneous, everyday events--the mailman at the door with a package to open...all of which need adult interpretation. They are real events of interest and concern to babies and young children....By contrast, infant education is artificial and out of context.” KnowsNeedsChildrenRealYoungParentInterestEducationDoorsEventsBabyAdultsConcernEverydayVarietyInterpretationContrastArtificialInteractionFormalSpontaneousInfantPackagesYoung ChildrenOf ContextMailman Author:Sandra Scarr
“So when I open the door on Halloween, I am confronted by three or four imaginary heroes, such as G.I. Joe, Conan the Barbarian and Oliver North, who would look very terrifying except that they are three feet tall and facing in random directions. They stand there silently for several seconds before an adult voice hisses from the darkness behind them: "Say 'Trick or treat!” LooksThreeVoiceBehindsDarknessFourDoorsFeetHeroAdultsTreatsTricksTallSecondsImaginaryHalloweenBarbariansConanTrick Or Treat Book:The World According to Dave Barry Source: The World According to Dave Barry
“The niceties of existence were not a matter of concern, yet everything around was closed down most of the time. If you lived in a middle-class community in Chicago, children and adults came daily to the door saying, 'We are starving, how about a potato?' I speak from poignant memory.” IfsChildrenMatterSpeakCommunityMemoriesExistenceClassDoorsMiddleAdultsConcernMiddle ClassChicagoPotatoesStarvingPoignantNiceties Author:Paul Samuelson
“Well, the fact is, we can never know what people do in the privacy of their own rooms. The door is closed. The blinds are drawn. We don't know. I leave it up to the reader. But there's no doubt in my mind that they loved each other, and this was an ardent, loving relationship between two adult women.” PeopleKnowsMindWellsTwoFactsRoomsDoubtDoorsReaderAdultsNo DoubtPrivacyArdentLoving Relationships Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“And they just slam the door. And they don't peek into that land any more. And they forget that teens and tweens are people, absolutely just as much as adults are. And their problems may play out on a smaller scale, but the things they go through are equally as valid as a CEO trying to figure out how to deal with a crisis at work. I just write for teens because I love 'em.” PeopleWritingTryingMayPlayProblemForgetDealsDoorsLandFiguresAdultsCrisisScalesEmsTeensCeoSlamTweens Author:Lauren Myracle
“If I could've picked a birthday it would've been on Halloween. Yeah, it's always been my favorite holiday. Not because it was my birthday, but actually because, I think it was the freedom, you know? When you were a little kid, you got to go out and be an adult for a couple of hours. You got to, like, just go out with your friends and knock on peoples' doors and be nuts and pull pranks and stuff like that. You could be whoever you wanted to be, you know, I guess that was the appeal to it.” IfsThinkingKnowsLittlesKidsWantedStuffHoursDoorsCoupleAdultsYeahMy FavoriteAppealsIf I CouldHolidayNutsBe YouHalloweenLittle KidMy BirthdayPranks Author:Frank Iero