| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 47443 |
| QUOTATION: | For parents, the terrible twos are a psychological preview of puberty.... At the age of two or three, children eat only bananas and refuse to get a haircut. Ten years later, they eat only bananas and refuse to get a haircut. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Carin Rubenstein (20th century), U.S. writer and social psychologist. “The Trying, Tedious, Treacherous, Truly Terrible 2’s,” Working Mother (February 1988). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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