Animals Are Certainly More Sophisticated Than We

You Read A Bunch Of Books And You Get A Bunch Of How-tos, And You Take A Bunch Of Classes And You Learn A Bunch Of Techniques. You Set Yourself Goals And Benchmarks. I Think People Have Imported That Into Their Experience Of Taking Care Of Children.

We're In A Culture Where Everything Is Either Consumption Or Production, So Child Care Is Either A Very, Very Bad-paying Form Of Work Or A Very Expensive Luxury That You Purchase. There Isn't A Good Place In Our Picture Of The World For What Caregiving Is About. Even Teenage Babysitters Have Sort Of Disappeared From The Scene.

Becoming An Adult Means Leaving The World Of Your Parents And Starting To Make Your Way Toward The Future That You Will Share With Your Peers.

Childhood Is A Fundamental Part Of All Human Lives, Parents Or Not, Since That's How We All Start Out. And Yet Babies And Young Children Are So Mysterious And Puzzling And Even Paradoxical.

Some People Say That Parents Don't Matter, And That's Not True At All. The Irony Is That We Pay Attention To All These Things That Don't Matter, And Not To What Does Matter, Such As Parents Having Enough Resources To Provide An Environment Where Their Children Have Both Security And Freedom.