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The More Obsessively We Focus On What A Particular Food Is Going To Do For Us, The Less Healthy We've Become. Simple Pleasures Become Complicated.

Caring For Children Has Always Been One Of The Deepest And Most Satisfying Things That A Human Being Does, And Yet It Is Hard To Keep A Healthy Attitude Toward It In Our Competitive, Outcome-oriented Society.

If You Just Got Enough Expertise And Enough Special Techniques And Read Up Enough, Then You Could Shape A Child Into The Kind Of Adult You Wanted. There's Almost This Kind Of Competitive Enterprise. That Picture Is The Picture I Think People Often Imply When They Use The Word "parenting".

Young Children Seem To Be Learning Who To Share This Toy With And Figure Out How It Works, While Adolescents Seem To Be Exploring Some Very Deep And Profound Questions: How Should This Society Work? How Should Relationships Among People Work? The Exploration Is: Who Am I, What Am I Doing?

Being A Grandmother Is A Wonderful Thing, So My Advice Is Skip The Children. Go Straight To The Grandchildren.