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Children
Quotes
- “If you wish to give your children the best possible gift, the best possible entree into life, remove your shadow from them. To give them a clean heritage, psychologically speaking is the greatest legacy. And, incidentally, you will go far in your own development by taking your shadow back into our private psychological structure— where it first originated and where it is required for your own wholeness.” ― Robert A. Johnson, Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche
- The child who seeks constant attention is, of necessity, an unhappy child. He feels that unless he gets attention he is worthless, has no place. He seeks constant reassurance that he is important. Since he doubts this, no amount of reassurance will ever impress him. – RUDOLF DREIKURS, M.D., Children: the Challenge
- If a mother has eight children, there are eight mothers. This is not simply because of the fact that the mother was different in her attributes to each of the eight. If she could have been the same with each…each child would have had his or her own mother seen through individual eyes. – D. W. WINNICOTT, F.R.C.P., Home is Where We Start From
- What, after all, does it mean to provide an appropriate education to a student? Frankly, nobody knows. Appropriate education is relative. It depends on the kid. Some seventeen-year-olds need to be able to factor polynomials and deconstruct Ivanhoe; other seventeen-year-olds need to learn to recognize common visual cues: skull and crossbones mean poison, do not touch, stay away. And there are a lot of seventeen-year-olds in between. It’s hard to tell who requires what. – ALLYSON GOLDIN, “The Incoherent Brain”