Welcome back to the quarter of the day show.

I'm your host, Sean Crox and a Sean Croxin.com.

We are wrapping up our super kid series today with Dr. Leo Buscalia.

And of course, the doctor is going to share another message of love and of laughter.

And today's quote of the day is this, the closest distance between two people is a good laugh.

Here's Leo.

Edward Blishin talking about children says, the world must be mastered.

Well enough at any rate for the child to be able to make its way through it as a reasonably competent human being.

And to do this, there is a great deal to be known and a great balance to be sought.

The balance between the inward person and the outward person,

between the vast and awful possibilities of the imagination and the reality which is bearable

simply because it is real.

The adult represents to the child that this balance can be achieved.

So if we're cheating, if we're lying, if we're deceptive, if we're unloving, if we're prejudiced, if we're bitter,

that's what we're modeling for our kids and for each other and for society.

And that's why we're also suspicious.

You know, one of the things I do in my counseling classes at the university is I always gather them up and

we go on a field trip to the general hospital.

And we go to the psychiatric ward and I say, look, these are very young kids and they're afraid they're appalled.

They don't understand that there are young people in their 16s and 17s and 18s and 20s and 30s rocking,

spending the rest of their lives rocking, staring into space, curled up in a little ball back in the fetal position,

disappearing because the world has already become such a painful place for them.

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