<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=351254" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Child Development</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As sure as prehistoric fish grew legs<br>and sauntered off the beaches into forests<br>working up some irregular verbs for their<br>first conversation, so three-year-old children<br>enter the phase of name-calling.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Every day a new one arrives and is added<br>to the repertoire. You Dumb Goopyhead,<br>You Big Sewerface, You Poop-on-the-Floor<br>(a kind of Navaho ring to that one)<br>they yell from knee level, their little mugs<br>flushed with challenge.<br>Nothing Samuel Johnson would bother tossing out<br>in a pub, but then the toddlers are not trying<br>to devastate some fatuous Enlightenment hack.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They are just tormenting their fellow squirts<br>or going after the attention of the giants<br>way up there with their cocktails and bad breath<br>talking baritone nonsense to other giants,<br>waiting to call them names after thanking<br>them for the lovely party and hearing the door close.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The mature save their hothead invective<br>for things: an errant hammer, tire chains,<br>or receding trains missed by seconds,<br>though they know in their adult hearts,<br>even as they threaten to banish Timmy to bed<br>for his appalling behavior,<br>that their bosses are Big Fatty Stupids,<br>their wives are Dopey Dopeheads<br>and that they themselves are Mr. Sillypants.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Billy+Collins">Billy Collins</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=351254" data-title="Child Development de Billy Collins" data-description="As sure as prehistoric fish grew legs and sauntered off the beaches into forests working up some irregular verbs for their first conversation, so three-year-old children enter the phase of name-calling. Every day a new one arrives and is added to..."></div> </div> </div>

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