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PAINTING --- PAKISTAN --- PARACHUTE JUMPING
PARADISE --- PARANOIA
PARENTING/PARENTS

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PAINTING

see "ENTERTAINMENT, HOBBIES, & LEISURE ACTIVITIES" for related links


Buy old masters. They fetch a better price
than old mistresses.
--Lord Beaverbrook (1879-1964)
Canadian-born British newspaper proprietor
and Conservative politician

A product of the untalented, sold by the
unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
{on abstract art}
--Al Capp (1909-1979)
American cartoonist,
in "National Observer" [1 July 1963]

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Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) French painter

Matisse's painting _Le Bateau_ hung upside
down in the Museum of Modern Art, New
York, for forty-seven days before anyone
noticed [October 18-December 4, 1961].
In that period 116,000 people visited the
gallery.

_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000]

^^

I hate flowers. I paint them because they're
cheaper than models and they don't move.
--Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986)
American artist,
_New York Herald Tribune_ [18 April 1954]

I cannot convince myself that a painting is good
unless it is popular. If the public dislikes one
of my Saturday Evening Post convers, I can't
help disliking it myself.
--Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)
American painter and illustrator

I hope to paint something that will ruin the appetite
of every son of a bitch who eats in that room.
--Mark Rothko,
(On his commission for the Four Seasons restaurant.)

Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
--Tom Stoppard (1937- )
British playwright

I cannot help it that my pictures do not sell.
Nevertheless the time will come when people
will see that they are worth more than the
price of the paint.
--Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
Dutch painter,
letter to his brother Theo [20 October 1888]




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PAKISTAN

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see "PLACES" for related links


[Pakistan is] the sort of place to send your
mother-in-law for a month, all expenses paid.
--Ian Botham (1955- )
(In a BBC Radio interview [17 March 1984] The
following month he was fined by the Test and
County Cricket Board for making the remark.)




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PARACHUTE JUMPING

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I watched him strap on his harness and helmet,
climb into the cockpit and, minutes later, a
black dot falls off the wing two thousand feet
above our field. At almost the same instant, a
white streak behind him flowered out into the
delicate wavering mushroom of a parachute --
a few gossamer yards grasping onto air and
suspending below them, with invisible threads,
a human life, and man who by stitches, cloth,
and cord, had made himself a god of the sky
for those immortal moments.
--Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974)
American aviator,
contemplating his first parachute jump,
_The Spirit of St Louis_ [1953]




PARADISE

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see "HAPPINESS" for related links


My idea of paradise is a perfect automobile going thirty miles
an hour on a smooth road to a twelfth-century cathedral.
--Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918)
American man of letters,
summarizing his notions of travel in a 1902 letter to a niece.

Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.
--Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825)
German novelist

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Cockaigne (noun) [kκ-'keyn or kah-'keyn]
Paradise, utopia, an imaginary land of ease
and luxurious living.





PARANOIA

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see "THE MIND" for related links


Opposition may become sweet to a man,
when he has christened it persecution.
--George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819-1880)
English novelist

The paranoid patient who has a primary tendency
to believe himself persecuted draws from this
the conclusion that he must necessarily be a
very important person and therefore develops
a delusion of grandeur.
--Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
Austrian psychiatrist

When you spend all your time worrying that the devil
is right behind you, eventually you start seeing him
whether he's there or not.
--Anita Blake, character in
_Obsidian Butterfly_ by Laurell K. Hamilton

You can discover what your enemy fears most by
observing the means he uses to frighten you.
--Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
American longshoreman, philosopher,
and author who received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1982 {EB},
in _The Faber Book of Aphorisms_ [1962]
ed. W.H. Auden and Louis Kronenberger

Even a paranoid can have enemies.
--Henry Alfred Kissinger (1923- )
German born American diplomat,
in _Time_ [24 January 1977]

It seems very strange to me that we have this word [paranoia] which
means, in effect, that someone feels he is being persecuted when the
people who are persecuting him don't think that he is. But we haven't
got a word for the condition in which you are persecuting someone
without realizing it, which I would have thought is as serious a
condition as the other, and certainly no less common.
--R.D. Laing (1927-1989)
Scottish psychiatrist

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying
attention to them.
--Susan Sontag [Susan Rosenblatt] (1933-2004)
American essayist, critic, and novelist





PARENTING

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see "HOME & FAMILY" for related links


It was a saying of his ... that those parents who gave their
children a good education deserved more honor than those
who merely beget them; for that the latter only enabled their
children to live, but the former gave them the power of
living well.
--Aristotle (384—322 B.C.)
Greek philosopher.
In Diogenes Laertius
_Lives of the Eminent Philosophers_, bk V, sec. 11

Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe; He still
remember'd that he once was young.
--Dr. John Armstrong

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If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow
up a girl; and a boy that is a girl has all a girl's weakness without
any of her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God's
noblest work; a woman made out of a man is His meanest.
--Henry Ward Beecher (1813—1887)
American Congregational minister;
[brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, son of Lyman Beecher.]


We never know the love of the parent till we become
parents ourselves. When we first bend over the cradle
of our own child, God throws back the temple door, and
reveals to us the sacredness and mystery of a father's
and a mother's love to ourselves. And in later years,
when they have gone from us, there is always a certain
sorrow, that we cannot tell them we have found it out.
--Henry Ward Beecher (1813—1887)
American Congregational minister;
[brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, son of Lyman Beecher.]

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Children always assume the sexual lives
of their parents come to a grinding halt
at their conception.
--Alan Bennett (1934— )
English actor and playwright.
_Getting On" [1972]

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when
he is old, he will not depart from it.
--Bible
"Proverbs" 22:6

TV, which compared to music plays a comparatively small role in
the formation of young people's character and taste, is a consensus
monster—the Right monitors its content for sex, the Left for violence,
and many other interested sects for many other things. But the music
has hardly been touched, and what efforts have been made are both
ineffectual and misguided about the nature of the problem. The result
is nothing less than parents' loss of control over their children's moral
education at a time when no one else is seriously concerned with it.
--Allan Bloom (1930—1992)
American writer and educator.
_The Closing of the American Mind_ [1987]

'Yes, they are good boys,' I once heard a kind father say.
'I talk to them very much, but do not like to beat my children—
the world will beat them.' It was a beautiful thought not
elegantly expressed.
--Elihu Burritt (1810—1879)
American philanthropist.

The first duty toward children is to make them happy. If you have not
made them happy, you have wronged them; no other good they may
get can make up for that.
--Charles Buxton (1823—1871)
English author.

When I see the Ten Most Wanted lists I
always have this thought: If we'd made
them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't
be wanted now.
--Eddie Cantor (1882—1964)
American comedian, actor, singer, and songwriter.

Speak roughly to your little boy,
And beat him when he sneezes:
He only does it to annoy,
Because he knows it teases.
--Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832—1898)
English writer and logician.
_Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_ [1865], Ch. 6

Human beings are the only creatures that allow
their children to come back home.
--Bill Cosby (1937— )
American comedian.

As a child I was never kissed, never hugged,
never had a compliment.
--Rodney Dangerfield [Jacob Cohen]
(1921—2004) American comedian.
Being serious - speaking of his early life with
a philandering father and distant mother.

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents
and the second half by our children.
--Clarence Darrow (1857—1938)
American lawyer.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He
needs guidance. If there is love, there is no
such thing as being too tough with a child. . . .
If you have never been hated by your child,
you have never been a parent.
--Bette Davis (Ruth Elizabeth Davis) (1908—1989)
American actress.
_The Lonely Life_ [1962]

Always be nice to your children because they
are the ones who will choose your rest home.
--Phyllis Diller (1917— )
American comedian.

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Diogenes (?412—323 B.C.)
Greek philosopher.

One day a woman, accompanied by her small
son, came to Diogenes, complaining that the
boy was rude and ill behaved and asking what
she should do to improve his conduct. Diogenes'
answer was to strike the mother in the face.

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]

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The thing that impresses me most about
America is the way parents obey their
children.
--Edward VIII (1894—1972)
King [1936], afterwards, the Duke of Windsor.
In "Look" [5 March 1937].

How true Daddy's words were when he said: 'All children
must look after their own upbringing.' Parents can only
give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the
final forming of a person's character lies in their own
hands.
--Anne Frank (1929—1945)
German-born Jewish diarist.

Having one child makes you a parent;
having two you are a referee.
--Sir David Paradine Frost (1939— )
British television host.
In "Independent" [16 September 1989].

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
--Kahlil Gibran (1883—1931)
Lebanese poet.
_The Prophet_ [1923] "On Children"

Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832)
German poet, novelist, and playwright.

When our kids are young, many of us rush out to buy a
cute little baby book to record the meaningful events
of our young child's life. . . But I've often thought
there should be a second book, one with room to record
the moral milestones of our child's life. There might
be space to record dates she first shared or showed
compassion or befriended a new student or thought of
sending Grandma a get-well card or told the truth
despite its cost.
--Fred G. Gosman
American author

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"The Stern Parent"

Father heard his children scream,
So he threw them in the stream,
Saying, as he drowned the third,
"Children should be seen, not heard"

--Harry Graham (1874—1936)
British writer and journalist.
_Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes_ [1899]

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The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart
lies in the fact that parents have time to learn
the mistakes that were made with the older ones —
which permits them to make exactly the opposite
mistakes with the younger ones.
--Sydney J. Harris (1917—1986)
American journalist.

Not to be deficient in this particular, the author
has provided himself with a moral — the truth,
namely, that the wrongdoing of one generation
lives into the successive ones.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804—1864)
American novelist and short-story writer.
_The House of the Seven Gables_ [1851], preface

An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy
all his demands. Passion swells by gratification; and the
impossibility of satisfying every one of his demands will
oblige you to stop short at last, after he has become a
little headstrong.
--Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696—1782)
Scottish lawyer, agriculturalist, and philosopher.

Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of
your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness
of his children.
--Edgar Watson Howe (1854—1937)
American journalist and author.

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One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups,
to a child, is that they have forgotten what
it is like to be a child.
--Randall Jarrell (1914—1965)
American poet.
In Christina Stead _The Man Who Loved Children_ [1965].


It is not just Mowgli who was raised by a couple
of wolves; any child is raised by a couple of
grown-ups. Father and Mother may be nearer and
dearer than anyone will ever be again — still,
they are members of a different species.
--Randall Jarrell (1914—1965)
American poet.
_The Third Book of Criticism_ [1969]

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Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners.
The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them
to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.
--Joseph Joubert (1754—1824)
French philosopher.

The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that
in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.
--Jean Kerr (1923—2003)
American writer, [wife of Walter Kerr].

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My father used to play with my brother and me in
the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're
tearing up the grass.'

'We're not raising grass,' my dad would reply,
'we're raising boys.'

--Harmon Killebrew (1936— )
American Major League baseball player.

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The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine
the difference between boundaries and bondage.
--Barbara Kingsolver (1955— )
American author.
_High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never_ [1996]
"Civil Disobedience at Breakfast"

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To rear a boy under what parents call the "sheltered life system"
is, if the boy must go into the world and fend for himself, not wise.
Unless he be one in a thousand he has certainly to pass through
many unnecessary troubles; and may, possibly, come to extreme
grief simply from ignorance of the proper proportions of things.
--Rudyard Kipling (1865—1936)
English writer and poet.
_Plain Tales from the Hills_ [1888], "Thrown Away"


"If" by
Rudyard Kipling (1865—1936)
English writer and poet

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream — and not make dreams your master;
If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings — nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run —
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And — which is more — you'll be a Man, my son!

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It is . . . sometimes easier to head an institute
for the study of child guidance than it is to turn
one brat into a decent human being.
--Joseph Wood Krutch (1893—1970)
American critic and naturalist.

What the vast majority of American children need is to
stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being
chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis
it is not what you do for your children but what you have
taught them to do for themselves that will make them
successful human beings.
--Ann Landers [Esther Pauline Friedman Lederer]
(1918—2002) Advice columnist.
_Ann Landers Says Truth Is Stranger. . . _ [1968]

The parent who could see his boy as he
really is, would shake his head and say:
'Willie is no good; I'll sell him.'
--Stephen Butler Leacock (1869—1944)
Canadian humorist.
_Essays and Literary Studies_ [1916]
"The Lot of the Schoolmaster"

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Growing up as John Lennon's son has been a rocky
path. All my life I've had people coming up to me
saying "I loved your dad." I always have very mixed
feelings when I hear this. I know that Dad was an
idol to millions who grew up loving his music and
his ideals. But to me he wasn't a musician or a
peace icon, he was the father I loved and who let me
down in so many ways.

After the age of five, when my parents separated, I
saw him only a handful of times, and when I did he
was often remote and intimidating. I grew up
longing for more contact with him but felt rejected
and unimportant in his life.

Dad was a great talent, a remarkable man who stood
for peace and love in the world. But at the same
time he found it very hard to show any peace and
love to his first family — my mother and me. In many
accounts of Dad's life, Mum and I are either
dismissed or at best treated as insignificant bit
players, which is sadly something that continues to
this day.

--Julian Lennon (1963- )
(In Cynthia Lennon's _John_ [2005], "Foreword")

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I would not have children much beaten for their faults,
because I would not have them think bodily pain the
greatest punishment.
--John Locke (1632—1704)
English political and educational philosopher.

The hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel
beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever
afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach.
Or, again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell
until it is misery to carry within the body, easily chafed
and hurt by the most ordinary things.
--Carson Smith McCullers (1917—1967)
American author.

The last step in parental love involves the release
of the beloved, the willing cutting of the cord that
would otherwise keep the child in a state of
emotional dependence.
--Lewis Mumford (1895—1990)
American architectural critic, urban planner, and historian.
_The Conduct of Life_ [1951], Ch. 9

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From the spring/summer 2007 schedule of the E. L.
Cord Museum, in Reno, Nevada.

Clay Turds For Toddlers. Parent and toddler will explore
together the wonderful textures and forms that can be
created using clay. This fun and tactile approach will allow
you and your tot to discover the many possibilities that
can result from squishing, pounding, rolling and building
with this muddy material. You will sculpt, fire, and glaze
your “clay turds” during this exciting and developmental
opportunity for parent and child.

--_New Yorker_ (magazine) [24 December 2007]

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If you bungle raising your children I don't think
whatever else you do well matters very much.
--Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929—1994)
Wife of President John F. Kennedy.
In Theodore C. Sorenson _Kennedy_ [1965].

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their
horses and dogs than of their children.
--William Penn (1644—1718)
Quaker leader and advocate of religious
freedom who oversaw the founding of
the American Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania as a refuge for Quakers
and other religious minorities of Europe {E.B.}.
_Some Fruits of Solitude_ [1693]

Parents deserve reproof when they refuse to benefit
their children by severe discipline.
[Latin: Parentes objurgatione digni sunt, qui nolunt
liberos suos severa lege proficere.]
--Gaius Petronius Arbiter (?—AD 66)
Roman writer and senator.

The greatest gifts my parents gave to me. . . were
their unconditional love and a set of values. Values
that they lived and didn't just lecture about. Values
that included an understanding of the simple difference
between right and wrong, a belief in God, the importance
of hard work and education, self-respect and a belief
in America.
--Colin L. Powell (1937— )
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff [1989—1993]
and Secretary of State [2001—2005].

I got a fortune cookie that said, 'To remember is to understand.'
I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was
like to be a lawyer. A good editor remembers being a writer. A
good parent remembers what it was like to be a child.
--Anna Quindlen (1952— )
American writer.
_Thinking Out Loud_ [1994]

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I'm determined never to be a parent. Modern manners
and the break-up of the fine old traditions have
simply ruined the business.

I shall devote my life and fortune to the endowment
of research on the best method of producing human
beings decorously and unobtrusively from eggs. All
parental responsibility to devolve upon the incubator.

--Dorothy L. Sayers (1893—1957)
English writer of detective fiction.
_The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club_ [1928], Ch. 3

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'A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful,' says the
Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great
instructor is example.
--Samuel Smiles (1812—1904)
Scottish author.

The defects of children mirror the
defects of their parents.
--Herbert Spencer (1820—1903)
English philosopher.

Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.
--Talmud (A.D.1st—6th cent.)
Rabbinical writings.

It is better to keep children to their duty by a sense
of honor and by kindness than by fear.

--Terence [Publius Terentius Afer] (c. 190—159 BC)
Roman comic dramatist.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is
to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
--Harry S. Truman (1884—1972)
American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [1945—1953].

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was
right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
--Charles Wadsworth (1814?—1882)

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit
of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies
to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done
much to abolish misery from their future lives and
crimes to society.
--Daniel Webster (1782—1852)
American orator and politician.

A mother once asked a clergyman when she should begin
the education of her child, which she told him was then four
years old. 'Madam,' was the reply, 'you have lost three
years already.'
--Richard Whately (1787—1863)
English philosopher and theologian.

--Mary Wollstonecraft (1759—1797)
English feminist.
_A Vindication of the Rights of Woman_ [1792]


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15 -- Percentage of Americans who say parents are
putting too much pressure on students, according
to the Pew Global Attitudes Project

59 -- Percentage of Japanese who say parents ...

61 -- Percentage of Indians ...

63 -- Percentage of Chinese ...

--"Figuratively Speaking" in
_Las Vegas Business Press_ [11 September 2006]

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"Much Depends on Dinner"
By Cameron Stracher
in _The Wall Street Journal_
July 29, 2005

The recent death of Gerry Thomas, whom many credit with inventing
the TV dinner (think Swanson), draws to a close the kinder, gentler
era when happy families gathered around a television set, aluminum
trays in hand, enjoying their chopped sirloin beef and sweet green
peas in seasoned butter sauce while laughing at the wacky antics
of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Today, televisions are a lot bigger
(and flatter), the frozen-food industry has grown into a $30 billion
business and the chances of getting everyone to sit down for dinner
at the same time are a lot slimmer. Instead, we are a nation of take-
outers and drive-throughers, eating our meals on the go, dining by
ourselves and laughing alone. The family dinner has become an
endangered species, the victim of our own ingenuity and productivity.

Mealtime in the 1950s: Somehow, everybody managed to show up
at the same time. Eventually they may have even talked to one
another. These days, fewer than one-third of all children sit down
to eat dinner with both parents on any given night. The statistics
are worse if both parents are working and the family is Caucasian
(Latino families have the highest rate of sharing a meal). The
decline in the family dinner has been blamed for the rise in obesity,
drug abuse, behavioral problems, promiscuity, poor school performance,
illegal file sharing and a host of other ills.

A recent study at the Harvard Medical School, for example, concluded
that the odds of being overweight were 15% lower among those who
ate dinner with their family on "most days" or "every day" compared
with those who ate with their family "never" or on "some days." The
National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia
University found that teens from families that almost never eat
dinner together are 72% more likely to use illegal drugs, cigarettes
and alcohol than the average teen and that those who eat dinner
with their parents less than three times a week are four times more
likely to smoke cigarettes, three times more likely to smoke marijuana
and twice as likely to drink as those who eat dinner with their parents
at least six times a week.

[ . . . ]

In my absence from dinner, I am not alone. My evening train is packed
with men and women shoveling burritos, couscous or pizza into their
mouths, while firing off messages on their BlackBerries. Among my
friends, I know few who sit down to eat with their children on the
weekends, let alone the weekday. Instead they arrive just in time
to plant a kiss on the moist forehead of a drowsy babe, then retire
downstairs to the computer.

The causes for the incredible disappearing family dinner are many.
As women have entered the work force in greater numbers, fewer
hands are available to shop and cook. Both parents are working
longer hours and commuting farther, which makes it harder to get
home in time to share a meal. Children are busier, too, overcommitted
to school and sports and other activities, which has made coordinating
dinner time more difficult. Finally, the plethora of fast-food choices
exemplified by the TV dinner, though partly an effect of our changing
style of life, is also a cause: The easier it is to pick up or microwave
something on the run, the less likely we are to share our meal with
others.

[ . . .]

As food preparation has become easier, meals quicker and distractions
ubiquitous, it's tempting to view the family dinner as simply another
choice from columns A, B or C. Just as television has splintered its
viewing audience, TV dinners have splintered the dining audience.
When anyone can eat alone, few eat together.

And that's a shame. Because dinner is like a formal poem, with a fixed
meter and time. It can't be hastened by new technology or emailed
as an attachment to our kitchens. Instead, it's one of the few
opportunities for conversation in a noisy world, a place to take a
slower measure of our frenzied days. By missing mealtime, we are
missing a substantial part of our children's lives. Sooner than we
realize, they will not be at our table. Sooner than that, they will
not want to have anything to do with us.

Right now my own son's head is filled with baseball statistics that
he cannot wait to share. My daughter is obsessed with iTunes,
and wants to know what every song means, even when the lyrics
go: "I'm your boogie man / I'm your boogie man / Turn me on."
Instead of answering their questions, however, weeks pass
when I do not know what they are learning in school, who
they are playing with, what they do when I'm not around.

But I'm trying to mend my ways. So when my son asked me, a
few days ago, whether I'd be home early or late, I told him I'd
be taking the 5:03. "What do you want for dinner?" I asked.
"How about Chinese?" he said. It was a start.

Mr. Stracher is publisher of the New York Law School Law Review.

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martinet [mar-t'n-ET], noun:
1. A strict disciplinarian.
2. One who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of forms and methods.


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