Everything Tagged with 'childhood'
When we engage in restoring childhood to some place in our thinking and recognize that childhood has significance in the development of the adult, it’s all right to talk generally about “childhood” and “the child.” But as a theoretical concept, “the Child” is a fiction. We do not know enough about what children, as biologically given creatures, will do at different stages in development or under different cultural circumstances. […] We will not develop a useful theory of child development until we recognize that “the Child” doesn’t exist. Only children exist; children in a particular context; children who are different from each other; children with different senses.
– Margaret Mead, "Children, Culture, and Edith Cobb" (1977)
[T]he joy of being alive always seems to go hand in hand with the sorrow that things change. Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before — to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love.
– Jo Nesbo, in a poignant reflection about his native land of Norway following the recent attacks.
1001 Rules for My Unborn Son
From Walker Lamond, a list of 1001 rules about life for his yet-to-get-here son. (As he puts it, “Let’s get some things straight before I get old and uncool.”) He’s got a new book based on the idea coming out soon, too, which – inevitably – will probably be handed out at every baby shower on the planet. But you know what? That might just be an alright thing.
A few of my favorites of Lamond’s rules:
Rule #369. “You don’t get to pick your nickname.” (Just ask “Sluggy” Bogart.)
Rule #365. “Sadly, some things we love will never come back. The fedora is one of them.”
Rule #353. “See it on the big screen.”