What the F*ck?!

"Treat them [children] as though they were young adults .... 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.  Give them a pat on the head if they made an extraordinarily good job of a difficult task.  Try it out.  In a week's time you will find out how easy it is to be perfectly objective with your child and at the same time kindly.  You will be utterly ashamed of the mawkish, sentimental you have been handling it ... Won't you then remember when you are tempted to pet your child that mother love is a dangerous instrument?"  ~ John B. Watson, P.H.D. Psychological Care of Infant and Child 1928

Wow!  Maybe this is why our parents where so screwed up if this what was being taught way back when.  Then again they could just be nuts!