Quotes About Bonding

The stress of making small talk with in-laws is called being part of a family.

The best thing about sports is the sense of community and shared emotion it can create.

Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice.

We will escape, and if we cannot escape we will talk, you of those you love and I of those whom I love.

Scapperemo insieme, e se non ci riusciamo almeno parleremo, parleremo delle persone che amiamo. Ci sarà pure qualcuno che ami, o no?" "Sono solo al mondo." "Allora amerai me; se sei giovane saremo compari, se sei vecchio saremo padre e figlio.

Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning.

They had likely been together twenty times, an entire world created in just days.

It's true, tragedy can bring you closer or drive you apart.

leaning over her stomach, over the baby's feet that were now—little acrobat—pressing themselves up against her breasts. She leaned over the curve of its back and spine as they pressed themselves into her stomach and bladder, leaned over the head that was now pressing itself down toward the worn upholstery of the old car, sensing, perhaps, that its watery world was a tributary after all, not a pool. She

The crucial significance of bonding has only recently been proved scientifically. One hopes that it will soon be taken into account in practice, not only in a few select maternity hospitals but in larger hospitals as well, so that everyone will benefit from it. A woman who has experienced bonding with her child will be in less danger of mistreating him and will be in a better position to protect him from mistreatment by the father and other caregivers, such as teachers and babysitters.

His asthma was an expression of this dilemma: "I breathe in so much air but I must not breathe it out again, everything she gives me must be good for me, even if it stifles me." A look back at Proust's childhood casts light on the origins of this tragedy. It explains why he was inextricably bound up with his mother for so long and could not free himself of her influence, although he undoubtedly suffered as a result. Proust

And like any group thrown together in a strange situation, we developed the sort of we're-in-this-together, for-better-or-for-worse camaraderie that I found appealingly familiar. It was something I missed, the sense of sharing those small, daily experiences that, as far as I can tell, are really what life boils down to.

I never dreamed I would so enjoy having a father. It is like having another interesting mind, somewhat similar to your own but also strangely different, to rummage through.

Keep track of family members; talk with them, work and plan for the future with them, vacation with them, take them with you when you have something joyful to share.

Parents and children help each other to grow. In raising their children, parents are also raising themselves. Child rearing gives parents the chance to redo their own childhood and to improve on it.

Maybe the mother manages to be a mirror only part of the time. In such 'tantalizing' cases, some babies learn to withdraw their own needs when the mother's are evident.

Of all the evenings it is possible to spend, a companionable evening with friends is the best.

We became friends, I suppose, because we lived close to each other and it suited us and because when you are young friendships go unquestioned.

Some men you stick to right off. But it's those that take time to stick that stick longest.

Laughing with a man was a good step forward. First comes the laughter, then the respect, then the trust.

Reassuring lies had always been the glue that held his family together, after all.

When I was a boy, I used to pull a big cross saw with my dad. He'd use his right hand, so I'd have to use my left.

She thought of mothering, which was really another word for being present and caring what happened to someone.

they had had some good times together, and Buddy had made a decent meal in the end. Really, what else could you ask from a parent? He