Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for March 08, 2016
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If I don't feed the baby the right food, she won't be a well-adjusted adult. If I don't read her the right books, she'll be an emotionally hollow adult. If I don't sing her the right songs, she'll be a stressed adult. If I don't play for the right media she'll be a depressed adult. Why are your parents miserable all the time? Oh, I think that's just what it's like when you grow up.
Ida No almost 9 years ago
Growing old is not the same as growing up. This is why God invented heart attacks, to help people get over the stress of growing old.
Brass Orchid Premium Member almost 9 years ago
Catacombs,Nursery bones,Winter women,Growing stones,Carrying babies to the river-Soft Parade – The Doors
emptc12 almost 9 years ago
I read a news story years ago about a single father who was so obsessed with forming the best intellectual quality of his infant daughter that he totally controlled her life: Nothing but classical music, literary classics, the best museums, intense exposure to all scientific fields. I guess he took his cue from John Stuart Mill’s father. And like J. S. Mill, she had a psychological reaction. She ran away from him, and eventually became a teacher.
Brass Orchid Premium Member almost 9 years ago
If it cannot be quantized and manipulated, it cannot be said to exist in any real sense.