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(I got to 330 shortly after l:00 PM. For a change it wasn’t raining. Jane was doing well, and had slept well last night. As I turned her she said that this morning in hydro she’d felt more movements in her right leg—it had opened up more—and in the muscles of her upper back and her neck.

(3:48. Both feet moving well. Jane could also turn her head to the right, on the column of her neck, to look towards me a bit, in a way she can’t usually do. “I feel like I’m in a saddle,” she said. I gave her some ginger ale.

(3:50. I rubbed her right forehead again. More head motions. Then again. “The insides of my eyes do things—I don’t know what, when I do them.”

Often parents undermine their children’s confidence by endlessly repeating negatives. Such as, “Don’t do this,” or “Don’t do that.”

(Long pause.) They end up actually threatening their children, though usually they do not of course understand what they are doing. A mother might say, “Don’t run, or you will fall down,” or “Don’t talk so much, or people will not like you.” In any case, often children grow up with the idea that proper behavior consists mainly in avoiding danger. The emphasis is not upon pleasure, but on the avoidance of pain. Children are taught to repress their emotions rather than to express them.

(4:32. Jane just finished the sentence when there was a knock on the door. Mrs. Misnick from dietary came in. “Do you have today’s menu?”

People yearn toward freedom naturally, as the plants do toward the sun. Without a healthy dose of freedom and exuberance life itself seems to lose its meaning.