Parenthood

Some thoughts on the hardest job in the world.

“To me, life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside.”

-Rita Rudner

“People who say they sleep like a baby seldom have one.”

-Leo Burke

“When kids hit one year old, it’s like hanging with a miniature drunk. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.”

-Johnny Depp

“Raising a kid is part joy, and part guerrilla warfare.”

-Ed Asner

“When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. Then, when they’re finished, I climb out.”

-Erma Bombeck

“The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.’

-Duke of Windsor

“Like all parents, my husband and I do the best we can, hold our breath, and hope we’ve set aside enough money to pay for our kids’ therapy.”

-Michell Pfeiffer

“The way we know our kids are growing up: the bite marks are higher.”

-Phyllis Diller

“You learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.”

-Franklin P. Jones

“If a growing object is both fresh and spoiled at the same time, chances are it’s a child.”

-Morris Goldfischer

“Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I’ve got six children and no theories.”

-Lord Rochester

“You don’t know how much you don’t know until your children grow up and tell you.”

-S. J. Perelman

“You know children are growing ups hen they start asking questions that have answers.”

-John J. Plomp

“Few things are more satisfying than see in your children have teenagers of their own.”

-Doug Larson

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Nothing is something. Our minds creating their relative phenomenal constructs create an image of nothing as opposed to something, but that 'nothing' is actually a something. We just don't experience it as something. There is no nothing, nothing cannot exist, if nothing existed it would be something. This is a very hard realization, even when you imagine nothing you are imagining something that is a nothing. This is one of those phenomenally transparent neuropsychological facts that account for how we experience the world as a something, mainly by imposing an imaginary sense of nothing. And this is such an inescapable fact that scientists who are generally bright thinkers will look at the space surrounding an atom and claim it is nothing. Later on they find that particles blip in and out of existence in that nothing, but ask them what is between the particles that blip in and out and they will say nothing. As conscious beings the sense of nothing is a requirement to contrast the sense of something, and so we will always experience and imagine it to be the real world.

When scientists put bonobos (one of the words from the spelling bee) or macaques into a room that is alight with a tint, be it green or red, they see habituation occur in the occipital lobes of the apes. Eventually their brains stop reacting to the colored-light, it merely becomes as if it was white light. The brain habituates to the most common features in it's environment. White-light is defined by the contrast with incidental light. So it is with us, that which is most common in our environment and our experience is made transparent, invisible, undetectable. The old saying goes; we are like fish trying to find water. Because we spend our entire lives in water, and because to see water clearly would seriously impede our lives, we never experience the water except as negation.