Eric Berne
Author: Eric Berne
Publisher: Grove Press (1972)

It is already (after two years of a child's life) fairly predictable who the winners and the losers will be.  'Isn't He Amazing?' (during breast-feeding) reinforced two years later with 'That's a Good Boy' (during toilet-training) will usually do better than 'What's He Fussing About?' reinforced one year later by 'Enema Tube;' similarly, 'Lullaby,' first at nursing and later in the bathroom, will probably prevail over 'While Mother Smokes.