“I have an extremely difficult time wrapping my head around such a tragic event as the Elementary school massacre in Connecticut and unbelievable sadness for the parents, families and co-workers effected by this tragedy. We are ALL touched by this either directly or indirectly.... May hearts be comforted at such a devastating time. The world is with you.... I know I am.” KnowsWorldHeartMaySchoolParentDifficultSadnessEventsTragedyWorkersTouchedTragicUnbelievableDifficult TimesMassacresElementary SchoolWrappingCo WorkerConnecticutTragic Events Author:Pamela Moore
“Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?” WorldParentEventsThinkerArrivalsEpochGreat Events Book:The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“Adolescents' immature thinking makes it difficult for them to process the divorce. They tend to see things in black-and-white terms and have trouble putting events into perspective. They are absolute in their judgments and expect perfection in parents. They are likely to be self-conscious about their parent's failures and critical of their every move. They have the expectations that parents will keep them safe and happy and are shocked by the broken covenant. Adolescents are unforgiving.” ThinkingSelfMovingProcessParentDifficultBlackTermWhiteTroubleEventsBrokenPerspectiveSafeJudgmentExpectationsConsciousPerfectionAbsolutesDivorceCriticalBlack And WhiteShockedSelf ConsciousCovenantImmatureUnforgiving Book:Reviving Ophelia Source: Reviving Ophelia
“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
“I was raised really strongly on The Beatles; they were huge in my family, my parents loved them, and they used to quiz me on who was singing which song, and we'd play certain records for certain events, and things like that. So I mean, they were sort of my introduction to pop music.” MeanPlayUsedCertainSongParentRecordsEventsHugeSingingMy FamilyRaisedPopsIntroductionPop MusicQuiz Author:Eric Hutchinson
“To believe that your husband, wife, parents, kids, boss, job, bank account, or body is even partly responsible for your emotions, to think that there are bullets 'out there' that you have to contend with, that there are stressful life events to overcome, is to miss something vital.” ThinkingBelieveBodyKidsJobsParentEmotionWifeMissingEventsHusbandOvercomingAccountsResponsibleBossBulletsStressfulYour HusbandBank AccountsHusband WifeStressful Life Author:Andrew Bernstein
“The point is that families today are spending their money no more foolishly than their parents did. And yet they're five times more likely to go bankrupt, and three times more likely to lose their homes. Families are going broke on the basics - housing, health insurance, and education. These are the kind of bills that you can't just trim around the edges in the event of a downturn.” KindHomeTodayThreeParentLosesFiveEventsBillsEdgesSpendingBrokeThree TimesHousingBasicsDownturnFamilies Today Author:Amelia Warren Tyagi
“"Little Brother" sounds an optimistic warning. It extrapolates from current events to remind us of the ever-growing threats to liberty. But it also notes that liberty ultimately resides in our individual attitudes and actions. In our increasingly authoritarian world, I especially hope that teenagers and young adults will read it - and then persuade their peers, parents and teachers to follow suit.” WorldLittlesActionYoungIndividualParentSoundAttitudeLibertyTeacherGrowingEventsBrotherAdultsThreatNotesYoung AdultCurrentsOptimisticSuitsTeenagerWarningPeersLittle BrotherCurrent EventsParents And TeachersThreats To Liberty Author:Dan Gillmor
“I don't care who wins because I go to sporting events to scream. It's the one place on the planet you can shout anything you want. You can bellow at will, and nobody will bother you. I yell things like, 'My life sucks! Dan Quayle is a schmuck! If I don't have sex soon, I'm going to explode!' Parents turn to their kids as I leave the stadium and go, 'Hey, there goes a great fan.” IfsWantCareKidsTurnsWinningSexParentFansEventsPlanetsDon't CareHeyI Don't CareBotherScreamStadiumsSporting EventsLife SucksGreat FansSchmucks Author:Lewis Black
“Another part of what gave me a questioning, rabble-rousing, activist heart and soul is that when all these heavy events went down, my parents did not shelter the kids from it.” HeartSoulKidsParentEventsHeavyActivistQuestioningShelterHeart And Soul Author:Jello Biafra
“For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an iconic event. Downtown Beirut became a metaphor for so many things: man's inhumanity to man, what Charles Bukowski called "the impossibility of being human." It shaped our perceptions of war and human nature, just as Vietnam did for our parents. We used it to understand how the world works.” MenWorldHumansChildrenBookWarUsedParentGenerationsEventsHuman NaturePerceptionMetaphorCivil WarVietnamBeing HumanImpossibilityMy GenerationIconicDowntownInhumanityBeirutLebaneseInhumanity To Man Author:Annia Ciezadlo
“There were the events of 1968 when young people began to ask their parents, what did you do in the war? And since the middle- or late-'70s, the French have been absolutely obsessed with the Vichy regime. They have an institute of contemporary history that turns out first-rate scholarly work. Their textbooks are accurate. Whether the students actually read them is another matter.” PeopleFirstsHas BeensWarMatterYoungTurnsAsksParentMiddleEventsStudentsLateRateContemporaryObsessedRegimesAccurateInstituteTextbooksScholarly Author:Robert O. Paxton
“You can care very much about someone without being capable of becoming their primary caregiver in the event of their parents' untimely death.” CareParentEventsBecomingCapablePrimariesCaregiversUntimely Death Author:Mallory Ortberg
“I found two true stories. One was in 2003. One was the beginning of 2004. I decided to meld them. Richard Davis' story which is the largest portion of this, a lot of the events are exactly as you saw, exactly what happened and the locations. Exactly as it was said with the chicken house and the strip club. Richard's parents were on the set and they'll tell you that the story is different than their son's. I was very concerned because I called them to say, 'You understand I'm fictionalizing this story?” SaidTwoDifferentStoriesFoundHouseParentSawsHappenedEventsSonConcernedDecidedClubsChickensPortionsLocationTrue Story Author:Paul Haggis