People Go Crazy over Love Like Bees Go Wild over Honey!: Children on Romance, Dating & Kissing!

By David Heller

People Go Crazy over Romance like Bees Go Wild over Honey is a hilarious and memorable look at childrens views of romance, dating, and kissing. Directly from the spontaneous comments of four- to thirteen-year-olds, the reader is taken on a lively and outrageous journey through the nature of attraction, how to make yourself more attractive, courtship etiquette, adult dating habits, how to create a relationship, how the genders are different, the childrens tips for romantically challenged grown-ups, and what happens if, by some chance, two people actually fall in love.

Unlike their predecessors, this cohort of youngsters understands that the Internet is a common vehicle for meeting new people. Thus, they welcome with alacrity the opportunity to write their own dating site biographies and describe in detail what photos they would post. They also share with us, without self-consciousness, what they themselves would text on the next day after a first dateboth if they hit it off with someone and if the date falls short of expectations. The resulting missives are as poignant as they are funny, and they say so much about the human predicament of wanting relationships so earnestly and yet finding them so elusive.

Here is a sample of typical choice offerings:


In the beginning, you didnt have much of a choice because the only choice was the big dumb caveman in the next cave over (Samantha, age 11).

Poets have been curious about love because to this very day, nobody at all understands women (Robert, age 10).

Being romantic means you give a girl a kiss and a diamond ring, and she says: Thats very romantic. Can I have another? (Javier, age 8).

I like girls because they are elegant and they always carry tissues with them when you need one (Efrem, age 7).

If I fibbed on a dating profile, I would say I was top-rated in my class for being hot! (Eli, age 9).

On Christmas, if you kiss under the mistletoe, you are supposed to get married. But if it happens by accident, God might let you off the hook (Sandy, age 9).

For lovers, Valentines Day is the day you kiss and kiss until you get all puckered out and just eat chocolates as big as your heart (Claire, age 10).

There is ten times more kissing on Valentines Day, so people should get the next day off just to recover! (Taylor, age 9).

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 11, 2014
• ISBN: 9781499069204

David Heller

David Heller, PhD. is a clinical psychologist and the author of forty previous books, including many of a spiritual and religious nature. These works include: In Search Of God, The Soul Of A Relationship, When Darkness Reigned And Light Was Barely Visible (with Jared Heller), The Soul Of A Man, Talking To Your Child About God (Literary Guild Selection), Dear God: Children’s Letters To God, The Eternal Gifts Of Judaism, Just Build The Ark And The Animals Will Come, and The Kids’ Book of Prayers About All Sorts of Things (with Elizabeth Heller). Dr. Heller is a summa cum laude graduate of Harvard and received his doctorate from The University of Michigan.

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Table of Contents

DEDICATION

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD

OF ROMANCE, DATING AND KISSING

(Poets have always been curious about romance since a lot of them were men who were too dumb to have a clue about romance!)

CHAPTER TWO THE INSIDE STORY ABOUT WHAT MAKES PEOPLE ATTRACTED TO EACH OTHER

(Ladies like to wear shiny necklesses but the men are more dull.)

CHAPTER THREE THE SECRETS OF DATING

–"If you have to go on a date, make it

quick and go somewhere you

you won’t have to talk." –

CHAPTER FOUR THAT MYSTERIOUS WORLD OF INTRIGUE CALLED KISSING

– "Kissing is like a tornado because

it can really leave you spinning!" –

CHAPTER FIVE DEEPER REFLECTIONS ON ROMANCE, DATING AND KISSING – FROM SOME VERY KEEN OBSERVERS OF THESE WIDESPREAD BEHAVIORS

— "There is ten times more kissing on

Valentine’s Day, so people should get the next day off just to recover."

DEDICATION

TO JARED CHARLES OLIVER --

WITH LOVING WISHES FOR ALL OF HIS RELATIONSHIPS

TO BE HAPPY ONES.

INTRODUCTION

The topics of romance, dating and kissing (aka smooching) naturally invite curiosity in people of all ages. To young people in particular the nature of intimacy is a great and profound mystery. What makes two different individuals appealing to each other? What is it like to passionately kiss? How did those familiar old folks, mom and dad, decide they were right for each other? Children think about such evocative matters more than we as adults realize, and children’s ideas and imaginative notions about romantic relationships are no less significant and revealing than their ideas about home, school and the world in general.

Despite their educational significance, arithmetic and geography and science are not always enough to hold a child’s interest. Rather, their sweet little minds do wander and wonder about grown-up relationships, or what was once called the formula by which one and one makes three (Leonard Levinson). So kids play house from early on, try out adult roles in make-believe, and they joke about kissing and mushy relationships -- imagining what it will be like when they are all grown-up. Boys might picture themselves as suave and desirable gentlemen -- handsome, virile and athletic beyond description. For their part, girls may well portray themselves as the belle of the ball, so beautiful than an endless array of suitors will endlessly wait in line to curry their favors. Frequently, youngsters try on these roles at the same time they push them away and pronounce them as icky -- a sure sign that childhood is still calling and the gravitational pull of toys