“To prepare any activity for the child, it is necessary for the parent to think through every detail ahead of time. For example, is the cracker stiff enough to spread the peanut butter on or does it crumble with the pressure of spreading?...All of these difficulties become apparent in the preliminary practice period by the adult prior to a presentation to the child.”
“It takes maturity and practice and patience to spread chunky peanut butter evenly on crumbly bread.”
“You can spread jelly on the peanut butter but you can't spread peanut butter on the jelly.”
“I'm a child because I like peanut butter?”
“For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.”
“A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim parents. This latter nomenclature, by the way, would be an excellent piece of consciousness-raising for the children themselves. A child who is told she is a 'child of Muslim parents' will immediately realize that religion is something for her to choose -or reject- when she becomes old enough to do so.”