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Expert opinion on child rearing is no less subject to fashion than the length of hemlines. Witness the advice given to parents by Psychologist John B. Watson in his influential 1928 handbook Psychological Care of Infant and Child: "Never hug and kiss them, never let them sit in your lap. If you must, kiss them once on the forehead when they say good night. Shake hands with them in the morning...
Number five: As a five year old child I sat on the lap of the original, five-million-year-old Lone Ranger, Clayton Moore. 'Nuff said...
...lead after the 50 [yard] turn, and I figured I had a good chance. On the last lap, I went all out. I really wanted it badly...
...body and held under his right arm (whence comes the name: Uilleann is based on the Gaelic word for elbow). The bellows replaces a Scotsman's lungs in filling the leather bag that drives the sound. The bag goes under his left arm; out of it and across his lap comes a collection of wood and brass tubes. Some of these are the drones, which sound continuously in the background; the others, called regulators, are activated by brass keys studded along their length and are used intermittently for emphasis. Last of all comes the melody-making chanter, an oboe-like...
...mother is preoccupied with the chain of continuity that gurgles in her lap. Bette has just noticed that Sophie's ears, like little wings on her bald head, resemble those of Ruth Midler's as a child. Bette softens and tenses as she talks of never appreciating her mother's sacrifice. "When my baby was born," she says, "I was so tired. I kept thinking, 'How did she do it? How could she raise four children and still be standing?' I finally got the message, but it was too late...