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"There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence, they're just part of the behavioral portfolio."

Jeffrey Kluger on Home

More quotes about Home

  • "Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country."

    Margaret Thatcher on Home

  • "A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."

    Benjamin Franklin on Home

  • "Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."

    Oliver Wendell Holmes on Home

  • "Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home."

    Bill Cosby on Home

  • "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."

    Robert Frost on Home

More quotes by Jeffrey Kluger

  • "There are a lot of downsides to being male. We age faster and die younger. But give us this: we're lifetime baby-making machines. Women's reproductive abilities start to wane when they're as young as 35. Men? We're good to go pretty much till we're dead."

  • "Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient, and a professionally established middle-aged man is likely to have more time and money to devote to his kids than a twenty-something who's just getting started."

  • "Credit or debit cards, for starters, are nothing short of shoppers' Novocain. Even in the age of digital purchases and virtual money, we still attach a special value to dirty paper with pictures of presidents on it. Handing some of that to a cashier simply hurts more than handing over a little sliver of plastic."

  • "When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy, you're in the sweet spot for trouble."

  • "At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people."

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