In other words, all those things that tie us together with family can go through immense change in adolescence as we form our own identities and we can move apart from those with whom we grew up.
Without such knowledge, we simply suffer our emotions, but understanding them has a transformative effect: "An emotion which is a passion, ceases to be a passion, as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea of it".
Our 8-year-old, Thor, cowers beneath us - his parents, Astor and Speedie, and me, a surrogate brother, sister, wannabe parent - as we form a shield between him and the miniature cubes pounding down on us.
What arrives at our faculty of thinking from the senses is not ideas such as we form them in our thought, as the scholastic empiricists held, but rather only various particular motions emitted by external objects.
At the Plugg conference in Europe last week (which is organized by our editor Robin Wauters), Google M&A exec Anil Hansjee said of his group's investment activities, ""We are doing fewer and fewer of that out of my team as we form a proper investment fund that will be a separate effort".
And it has laid the foundation for understanding how time, place and experience are melded as we form the memories by which we define ourselves.
According to the expectancy-value model, attitudes arise spontaneously and inevitably as we form beliefs about an object [ 18].
"I would be as excited as I was when we formed U2 when we were 17 / 18 years old.
We formed as a nation from the "wretched refuse" of other shores, as Emma Lazarus poetically observed, and we turned what seemed a weakness into an indivisible strength.
