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a nice quote...

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NappiesGalooooooooooooria · 10/12/2006 21:44

got this off a syruppy american website i havent managed to get around to unsubscribing to (they auto signed me up somehere along the way...)

"You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience."

~ Stanislaw J. Lec

stuck a chord with me, in my current crusade to become Calm, Logical, Sane Mama (rather than Angry Awful Mother which i fear i can be sometimes)
dunno who Stanislav is but, quite an astute observation, no?

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shepherdswatchedtheirfLOCKETS · 10/12/2006 21:47

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TheChristmasArmadillo · 10/12/2006 21:51

lol nice.

One good one I heard was 'children learn through their eyes not their ears' (advocating being a good role model rather than constant criticism)

From a 17th Century childcare manual

NappiesGalooooooooooooria · 10/12/2006 21:51

yes indeedy lockets. i noticed somewhere the other day (on a thread i was lurking on, wierdo lurker that i am sometimes)that you had yours in 31 months. snap!

can be a bit like that sometimes, eh?

what the hell do you think that welsh bird who will have 7 under 5 be like???

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NappiesGalooooooooooooria · 10/12/2006 21:54

17th century childcare manual?? d'you get that free on the nhs then?

tis a bloody good point actually.

i managed to do a years course in montessori early years teaching during ds1's first year (pg with ds2 of course, lol) which was really great i found. taught me a lot about development, human nature, the ways in which children learn... am very glad to have done thet

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NappiesGalooooooooooooria · 10/12/2006 21:55

lol lockets, mine are all ds's

shall we trade one, just for the sake of variety?

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WeWishUAMerryXmasNANappyNewYr · 11/12/2006 00:34

i don't get it ..

NappiesGalooooooooooooria · 11/12/2006 10:21

what dont you get? can i help?

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pablopatito · 11/12/2006 10:24

I don't get it either.

WeWishUAMerryXmasNANappyNewYr · 11/12/2006 11:19

the quote am i being dumb?

WeWishUAMerryXmasNANappyNewYr · 11/12/2006 11:19

the quote am i being dumb?

FLAMEinEckItsYuleAgain · 11/12/2006 11:25

I'm dumb too Maybe I am overthinking it.

cruisemum1 · 11/12/2006 14:47

It is the irony that to learn to be patient you already need to be patient iyswim. At least that is what I think it means

FLAMEinEckItsYuleAgain · 11/12/2006 14:52

It makes no sense to me - you can't be patient unless you are already, so if you're not you're screwed?

climbingrosie · 11/12/2006 14:56

slight hijack~sorry! Another sixteenth century quote that is great: 'the fault no child ever looses is the one he was most punished for' Cesare Beccaria.

climbingrosie · 11/12/2006 14:58

In response to the OP's quote I think the quote means that it takes a lot of patience to learn to be patient, or for patience to come naturally a lot of effort is involved first in consciously trying to be patient? ...how I understood it anyway...??

FLAMEinEckItsYuleAgain · 11/12/2006 14:59

I have always quite liked this quote:

"Hey lazerlips, your mamma was a snowblower!"

FLAMEinEckItsYuleAgain · 11/12/2006 15:00

Too much for my brain to cope with today

I'm at the "fire bad, tree pretty" stage today....

WigWamBahhumbug · 11/12/2006 15:01

I think it just means that in order to learn patience, you have to first practice being patient. It doesn't mean that if you're not patient then you're screwed; it just means that the only person who can teach you patience is yourself because you have to practise it in order to learn it.

Or something ...

NappiesGalooooooooooooria · 11/12/2006 18:17

yeah, i think what wigwam and climbing rosie said... was my more positive/constructive take on it than the slightly defeatist 'if you aint got it youre screwed' approach

the irony that it takes a lot of effort to learn how to go about things in an apparently effortless sort of way... i liked that part too.

but totally understand 'fire bad, tree pretty' mentality!! spend quite a bit of time there myself

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danceswithreindeer · 11/12/2006 18:20

In the days when swearing in films used to be badly dubbed/replaced..

"FUN YOU MOTHER CRUSHER!" from Robocop

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FLAMEinEckItsYuleAgain · 11/12/2006 18:20

@ the "slightly defeatest"

NappiesGalooooooooooooria · 11/12/2006 18:56

lol at the random quotes from 80s movies! reminds me of a friend at school who had the oddest sense of humour... (a cahracteristic i like )

and yes, 'slightly defeatist'... a bit like, 'ever so slightly COMPLETELY F*ED!!!'

oh its a delightful place, my head, sometimes

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FLAMEinEckItsYuleAgain · 11/12/2006 20:02

Here's one that people very rarely get...

"And what would you like for Christmas?"

"A car and a train and three nintendos!"

"Yeeeeeeeeeeees, and a pencil's also nice..."

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