Quotes About Bonding

If you spend 2 hours a day without an electronic device, looking your kid in the eye, talking to them and solving interesting problems, you will raise a different kid than someone who doesn't do that.

If you spend 2 hours a day without an electronic device, looking your kid in the eye, talking to them and solving interesting problems, you will raise a different kid than someone who doesn't do that. That's one of the reasons why I cook dinner every night. Because what a wonderful, semi-distracted environment in which the kid can tell you the truth. For you to have low-stakes but superimportant conversations with someone who's important to you." ON

Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another: 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one.'"—C. S. Lewis

Your answers to these basic questions can show you how your family shaped your views on relating to others.

Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child.

Whatever it is that makes closeness possible between people also puts them in the way of hard feelings if that closeness ends.

In the 1950s, primate researcher Harry Harlow's legendary experiments replacing the real mothers of baby monkeys with cloth ones proved the extent to which infants need loving physical attention in order to become healthy adults.

In the 1950s, primate researcher Harry Harlow's legendary experiments replacing the real mothers of baby monkeys with cloth ones proved the extent to which infants need loving physical attention in order to become healthy adults. Remarkably, this sort of touching went against the child-rearing views of the time.

The behaviorist view was that babies—monkey or human—loved their mothers for the milk that they provided, since this satisfied a primary need. But what Harlow had seen with the cloth pads made him wonder whether babies might love their mothers not for their milk only, but because they provided warmth and affection. Perhaps

The study showed that even when the wire mother was the one lactating, the monkeys vastly preferred to be with and have physical contact with the soft-cloth mother.

What's been good for the downtime is I got a dog. A little black lab. I've been training her, so she's kept me occupied.

When we travel as a family, there needs to be a cultural element or sporty, outdoorsy things to keep us occupied.

The name of a cat has to come from something that just occurs to you by interacting with the cat.

I think dads let babies take more of a risk, maybe bounce off a bed more or jump off a couch or do more risk-taking things.

The whole reason people fill their homes with furry carnivores and not with, say, iguanas and turtles, is because mammals offer something no reptile ever will. They give affection, they want affection, and respond to our emotions the way we do to theirs.

I don't like to be alone. I like to have my family around me. They disturb me, of course, but that's OK.

Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating.

When I was a kid, my mother used to film all of our holidays and all of the good times, and I kind of associated the camera with everything being okay and everything being happy.

I liked television in the old days. I liked that everybody knew every episode of 'The Brady Bunch,' everybody knew every episode of 'Cheers.'

My kids are old enough now that they can watch that, but I like to do the family movies.

I never had a cool older brother or sister to turn me on to cool music.

The first time I played basketball was with my dad and my older brother Thanasis.

One older brother of mine collects comics, and when I was younger, I collected them, too.

I was very lucky to have been brought up in a household where my older brother and my father read out loud to me as a teenager. It was a form of conversation or entertainment.