25. Ontogenetic Parade, noun. A term coined in 1970 by psychologists Sandra Wood Scarr and Philip Salapatek to describe the typical series of fears and anxieties that infants, children, and adolescents pass through. The word ontogeny, meaning the development of an individual organism, is from the Greek ontos, “being or essence,” + geneia, “origin.” The word parade, which today we think of as denoting a procession, can be traced to the Latin parare, “to make ready or prepare.” You don’t have to be really great at navigating, she tells me, crackling softly down the line, just as long as the thought of it doesn’t scare you. That’s all I want to be sure of. And it doesn’t scare me, not at all; not that thought. Not that one.

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25. Ontogenetic Parade, noun. A term coined in 1970 by psychologists Sandra Wood Scarr and Philip Salapatek to describe the typical series of fears and anxieties that infants, children, and adolescents pass through. The word ontogeny, meaning the development of an individual organism, is from the Greek ontos, “being or essence,” + geneia, “origin.” The word parade, which today we think of as denoting a procession, can be traced to the Latin parare, “to make ready or prepare.”


You don’t have to be really great at navigating, she tells me, crackling softly down the line, just as long as the thought of it doesn’t scare you. That’s all I want to be sure of.


And it doesn’t scare me, not at all; not that thought. Not that one.

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