The Life, the Universe, and Everything
Quotes by Erich Fromm (Mar. 23, 1900 – Mar. 18, 1980)
Source: http://www.phillwebb.net/History/TwentiethCentury/continental/Marxism/Fromm/Fromm2.jpg
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating [...]
In the spirit of the Family Day
From the web-site www.parenting-boys.com
Are You Ready for Children?
Mess Test: Smear peanut butter on the sofa and curtains. Now rub your hands in the wet flowerbed and rub on the walls. Cover the stains with crayons. Place a fish stick behind the couch and leave it there all summer.
Toy Test: [...]
It is a family day in Canada. I am reading books on parenting because my six-year-old son alone gives me as much headaches as (I am assuming, of course) a whole soccer team would. I am reading on parenting and I am still nowhere.
That is an excerpt from Jeffrey Bernstein “Liking the Child You Love”.
Joking [...]
I have a little trouble-maker at home, that is, my son, a six year old. Clever, defiant and impossible to manage. I have reached an impasse and now I am on the quest for solutions.
I read some books, but they turned out to be useless. This is a new approach from Alfie Kohn “Unconditional parenting”. [...]
It seems strange nowadays, but I do have difficulty even picking a film. Maybe I just do not want to waste my time watching some garbage. The major difficulty is, of course, in defining what garbage is. I can only pass a judgment after having watched a movie. Now, I try to laugh at myself [...]
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