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Highly intelligent parents, therefore, may find themselves with a retarded child. If they place a great value upon intellect at the expense of the emotions, then the child may be acting out for them the emotional spontaneity of which they are so afraid themselves.

[...] She did then obviously decide to have a child, abortions or no, for in this case they did not work. [...]

Ruburt’s grandmother taught him to sleep with his hands above the coverlets, so that the child would not even begin subconsciously to feel its own parts while it slept (again intently). [...]

[...] The child’s first steps are latent within the first flickering of the infant’s eyes, for the events follow as naturally as the opening of the petals of a flower.

[...] The best thing the father can do for now is to be simply kind to the boy, but relieve the child of his heavy-handed thoughts mentally. [...]

As a child is physically protected from some diseases for a while after he emerges from his mother’s womb, so for a brief period is the child cushioned against some psychic disasters for a short period after birth, and carries within him, still for his comfort, memories of past existences and places. [...]

[...] A child may be told: “You are just like your mother; she was always nervous and moody.” [...]

[...] You might surprise yourself, and find yourself as delighted as a child with a new game.

When the child does not understand what you are saying, you tell him again and again and you tell him in different ways. You realize that the child must understand the truths. [...]

This is the adult’s chance to understand and emotionally exorcise parental ghosts from the child’s past. [...]

[...] He sat on the family porch Sunday to escape the house as he did as a child in Saratoga. [...]

[...] Such a child might naturally die at 10 or 12, or earlier. Yet the ministrations of science might keep the child alive far longer, until such a person [begins] encountering an adulthood thrust upon him or her, so to speak.

[...] In its natural form this is not a morbid, frightened, neurotic, or cowardly attempt to escape life, but a definite, positive, “healthy” acceleration of the desire for survival, in which the individual strongly wants to leave physical life as once the child wanted to leave the parent’s home.

[...] Such a son or daughter might be born, for instance, through a woman who wanted to experience childbirth but who did not necessarily want to encounter the years of child-raising, for her own reasons.

[...] I am not here condoning suicide, for too often in your society it is the unfortunate result of conflicting beliefs — and yet it is true to say that all deaths are suicide, and all births deliberate on the part of child and parent. [...]

[...] In one way the family’s treatment of her like a child is accepted, for it provides the thrust for independence in the same way that a child wants to grow up and leave the house. [...]

We must start with the fact that Ruburt did not feel secure as a child, but was made somewhat to feel responsible for his mother’s illness and breakup of her marriage. [...] He was a high-spirited child, and was taught there that he must toe the mark and do what the others did, or he would be punished.

He protected himself against early marriage or child bearing by identifying the male writer to some extent with his own writing image. [...]

He kept it to protect himself and to protect you, artistically and economically, so that for example you would not have a child to support or to turn you from your lone purpose. [...]

Now the old man, in your terms, that will be, the personal old man that you will be, exists now as the child, in your terms, that you were exists now. [...]

Now in the 14th century in what is now called Spain there was a family unit and this was the father (Lawrence) and this was the wife (Ron) and this was the child (Mark) and they have met, in your terms, after many years. [...]

[...] You have done this with your art; and began, in your terms, as a child of your parents with the teachings of that culture. [...]

[...] As a child at one time he died from suffocation, and this also has its bearings here in the present, the panicky gulping of air being a mechanism of subconscious memory. [...]

(“What would happen if we did have a child?”)

[...] It does not change the fact that it is the last reincarnation cycle for parents for example, although it may be lonely for the child in such an instance. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) When you were a child you thought in a freer fashion, but little by little you were educated to use words in a certain way. [...]

[...] It is the same as a child saying: “I am going to grow up, but I am never going to change the ideas that I have now.” [...]

[...] I made two ball-point pen drawings of my wife while she lay on her side with her beautiful eyes still open; they were blue flecked with hazel, and were as clear and peaceful as those of a child. [...]

[...] And if you had more of a feeling of joy, you would look inward more easily and if you approached it as a child again, you would find some freedom. [...]

[...] And it would make your ordinary everyday intellect seem like an idiot child indeed—for you have no idea of the ability of your intellect as it really operates. [...]

[...] The child is as new and fresh today as a child was 5,000 years ago, and each spring is as new.