“It turns out that the 'Cry It Out' method of baby sleep training, where you ignore that your kid is screaming, crying and turning 40 shades of purple so that she can break herself out of the habit of being spoiled and cuddled to sleep, does more harm - way more - than good.” WayDoeKidsTurnsSleepBreakCryBabyHabitTrainingMethodHarmShadePurpleSpoiledBeing SpoiledTurning 40Sleeping Baby Book:My Brown Baby: On the Joys and Challenges of Raising African American Children Source: My Brown Baby: On the Joys and Challenges of Raising African American Children
“I think the hard thing about this job [stand-up] I mean, I think this part is great but that the traveling is y'know, 'cause 'cause I'm gone a lot from home and this time I'm out for three-and-a-half weeks without going home, and that's hard, to be gone three-and-a-half weeks 'cause then I have to ask my friends, "Would you mind going to the house and watering the plants, and turn some lights on and make it look like somebody's home, and make sure that the mobile over the crib isn't tangled or the baby's gonna get bored.” ThinkingKnowsMindLooksMeanHardHomeLightJobsTurnsThreeAsksHouseCausesHalfGoneWeekBabyMy FriendsPlantBoredMobileHard ThingsTangledGoing Home Author:Ellen DeGeneres
“Welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you chicken pox whooping cough smallpox malaria TB heart disease cancer and so on unemployment hunger and so on train wrecks bus accidents plane crashes on-the-job injuries earthquakes floods droughts and so on heartbreak alcoholism and so on nightsticks prisons doors and so on they're laying for you the atom bomb and so on welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you socialism communism and so on.” HeartJobsTurnsDoorsBabyDiseasePrisonTrainHungerCancerAccidentsSocialismWelcomeCommunismPlanesBombsInjuryChickensBusAtomsCrashFloodUnemploymentAlcoholismWrecksEarthquakesDroughtHeart DiseaseMalariaAtom BombSmallpoxPlane CrashesPoxTrain WrecksWhooping Cough Author:Naz?m Hikmet
“In truth, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” isn't about Sept. 11. It's about the impulse to drain that day of its specificity and turn it into yet another wellspring of generic emotions: sadness, loneliness, happiness. This is how kitsch works. It exploits familiar images, be they puppies or babies - or, as in the case of this movie, the twin towers - and tries to make us feel good, even virtuous, simply about feeling. And, yes, you may cry, but when tears are milked as they are here, the truer response should be rage.” FeelsShouldTryingMayFeelingsTurnsEmotionCasesSadnessLonelinessCryTearsBabyResponseRageFamiliarFeel GoodImpulseLoudWorking ItVirtuousTwinsTowersExploitsPuppyDrainsKitschGenericSpecificityWellspringSept 11Twin Towers Author:Manohla Dargis
“When I was first running marathons, we were sailing on a flat earth. We were afraid we'd get big legs, grow mustaches, not get boyfriends, not be able to have babies. Women thought that something would happen to them, that they'd break down or turn into men, something shadowy, when they were only limited by their own society's sense of limitations.” MenFirstsBigsHappensRunningAbleEarthTurnsGrowsSportsBreakBabyLegsLimitationFlatsSailingBreaking DownMarathonMustacheRunning Marathon Author:Kathrine Switzer
“The Baby Boom has spawned an even bigger Grandma Boom. For every baby born, two women turn into grandmas.” TwoTurnsBornBabyBiggerGrandparentGrandmaBaby BornBaby Boom Author:Mary Margaret McBride
“In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.” PeopleThinkingShouldBelieveJoyTurnsBabySouthHeightKoreaRest Of Your LifeJoy And HappinessSouth Korea Author:Alice Walker