| Quotations - Children |
[Quote No.48040] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Your Childhood Is Crucial to How You'll Age:- Early relationships with your parents have a profound impact on your health and outlook on life:
If the child really is father to the man, then it's reasonable to ask: Why is that true?
This is not a simple question. But research from the Harvard Study of Adult Development allowed me to link childhood environments with men's lives in old age. The project, commonly known as the Harvard Grant Study, is the longest longitudinal study of human development ever undertaken. Begun in 1938, it has charted the emotional and physical growth of more than 200 men, starting in their undergraduate days at Harvard University.
For the study, research associates assessed the childhoods of 268 Harvard sophomores and, separately, 456 disadvantaged inner-city youth. At least two independent raters, blind to the men's identities, reviewed each subject's answers to questions about their childhoods. In all cases parents were interviewed, too. The raters were kept ignorant of the fate of the men after adolescence. Rater reliability was excellent.
The goal was to use the assessments to answer these questions:
--• Was the home atmosphere warm and stable?
--• Was the boy's relationship with his mother (and, separately, his father) warm and encouraging, conducive to autonomy and supportive of initiative and self-esteem?
--• Would the rater have wished to grow up in that home environment?
--• Was the boy close to at least one sibling?
Researchers discovered that wealth and status, to the extent that they correlated with successful aging, were not predicted by social privilege in youth, but instead by childhoods experienced as warm and intimate.
--Upending Expectations:
There were other surprises as well. For example, among the college men, achievement of high military rank in World War II correlated more highly with a warm childhood than with social class, athletic success or intelligence. For the 456 inner-city men, none of whose parents were wealthy, warm childhoods and friendships were best the predictors of high income.
Equally important, what went wrong in childhood predicted future income and social class less robustly than childhood strengths. The early study staff noted that neither strict nor liberal toilet training exerted any significant effect on future personality.
Another faulty assumption, based on retrospective 'evidence,' is that alcoholism is 'caused' by an unhappy childhood. Data from our inner-city sample suggests that alcoholism is caused more by heredity than environment. An alcoholic parent appears in the childhoods of many alcoholics, leading to a miserable upbringing as well as future alcoholism. However, miserable childhoods without a biological alcoholic parent do not lead to alcoholism.
The college men in the bottom and top fifths of the study's scale of childhood warmth were termed the Loveless and the Cherished. By age 50, half of the Cherished, but only an eighth of the Loveless, had made excellent adjustments to adulthood. By the time the men were 70, only a seventh of the Cherished, but fully half the Loveless, had at one time been diagnosed as mentally ill, under which rubric we included serious depression, drug or alcohol abuse or a need for extended psychiatric care (more than 100 visits) or hospitalization.
The Loveless were five times as likely as the Cherished to be unusually anxious. They took more prescription drugs of all kinds and were twice as likely to seek medical attention for minor physical complaints. Warm childhoods were often followed by heavy smoking, alcohol abuse or regular tranquilizer use, but bleak childhoods were often associated with all three.
--Unhappy Childhood and Lonely Old Age:
The cruelest aspect of a bleak childhood was its correlation with friendlessness at the end of life. The Cherished were five times more likely to be rich in friendships and other social supports at 70 than the Loveless, who often trusted neither the universe nor their emotions and remained essentially friendless for much of their lives.
The Loveless were more likely than the Cherished to be pessimistic and self-doubting. Perhaps this is why many of them were unable to take love in, even when it was offered, or fearful about offering love themselves. However — and this is important — there were many Loveless who, often through good marriage, learned to adapt to life successfully by 70 or 80.
The study found some facets of adulthood in which a good relationship with a parent, but not the other, exerted significant influence. When I first began to analyze the effects of childhood on adults, it looked as if the total childhood environment was more important than the maternal relationship alone. But as decades passed and the subjects aged, this impression proved misleading.
Positive boyhood relationships with mothers were associated with: effectiveness at work, high maximum income, continuing to work until 70 and mental competence at 80. A poor relationship with one's mother was significantly associated with dementia. Yet none of these outcomes was even suggestively associated with the quality of a college man's relationship with his father.
Warm relationships with fathers (but not mothers) did enhance the men's capacity to play. For example, men with warm paternal relationships enjoyed their vacations significantly more than others, employed humor more as a coping mechanism and achieved significantly better adjustment to, and contentment with, life after retirement. Men with good fathering also manifested less anxiety — a significantly lower standing-pulse-rate in college, for example — and fewer physical and mental symptoms under stress in young adulthood.
Men with poor fathering were much more likely to call themselves pessimists, to report having trouble letting others get close and to report low life satisfaction at 75. None of these variables were associated with the maternal relationship. And, counterintuitively, it was the men with poor fathering, not poor mothering, who were significantly more likely to have unhappy marriages. All five of the men who reported that marriage without sex would suit them had poor paternal relationships, but the adequacy or inadequacy of their mothering was evenly distributed.
Finally, how the men adapted to a loving or bleak childhood had as much to do with future success as childhood itself.
Of 26 personality traits assessed when the college men were 21, the trait called 'Practical, Organized' best predicted good adjustment from ages 30 through 50. Similarly, the 90-year-old Terman Study of adult development, which included women, found that prudence, forethought, willpower and perseverance in junior high school were the best predictors of vocational success at age 50. It's hard not to believe that these are precisely the traits people need to find ways around failures and to capitalize on successes when they come along.
The Harvard study makes clear that global disruptions of childhood have strong predictive power, none of it good. Children who fail to learn basic love and trust at home are handicapped later in mastering the assertiveness, initiative and autonomy that are the foundation of successful adulthood. Mental illness and alcoholism create conditions that can ravage entire families and destroy children's futures for decades to come." - George Vaillant
George Vaillant is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Excerpted from his book, 'TRIUMPHS OF EXPERIENCE: THE MEN OF THE HARVARD GRANT STUDY', published by Harvard University Press, 2012. [http://www.nextavenue.org/blog/why-your-childhood-crucial-how-youll-age ]
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.48293] Need Area: Friends > Children
"A supportive, good leader [or parent] is optimistic about the future and grateful for the past for all concerned - seeing that 'the future could be better' than currently expected, and that 'the past could have been worse'!" - Ben O'Grady
Founder and CEO of www.imagi-natives.com
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.48510] Need Area: Friends > Children
"In a sense, among higher animals adaptive fitness was no longer transmitted to the next generation by DNA at all. It was now carried by teaching. ... For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt!!" - Michael Crichton
'The Lost World'
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.48512] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon." - E.M. Forster
British writer
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.48799] Need Area: Friends > Children
"To educate a man [or woman] in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society!" - Theodore Roosevelt
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.48808] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives!" - Robert M. Hutchens
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.48810] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but men and their ways; and the fashioning of the affections and of the will into an earnest and loving desire to move in harmony with those laws!" - Thomas Henry Huxley
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.48855] Need Area: Friends > Children
"A common question that parents ask is, 'How do I teach my children to be grateful?'
Be role models of gratitude yourself.
Let your children frequently hear that you are grateful... [for example before each meal while saying grace or giving toasts]
Let your children frequently hear you say that you are grateful to your parents for what they have done for you and what they have taught you.
Let your children frequently hear that you are grateful for friends, relatives and neighbors who have done things for you, recently and a long time ago.
Let your children frequently hear that you are grateful to them for the positive things they do." - Rabbi Zelig Pliskin
From his book, 'Thank You! Gratitude: Formulas, Stories, and Insights'.
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.48979] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Your children get only one childhood." - Unknown 90 year old
[http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1uDuXi/:1EEwECGq4:ePV!Xi.S/kangalex.com/post/31729006624/45-life-lessons-written-by-a-90-year-old/ ]
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.48990] Need Area: Friends > Children
"It’s OK to let your children see you cry." - Unknown 90 year old
[http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1uDuXi/:1EEwECGq4:ePV!Xi.S/kangalex.com/post/31729006624/45-life-lessons-written-by-a-90-year-old/ ]
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.49033] Need Area: Friends > Children
"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
" - Victor Hugo
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.49075] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Sweet Talk Your Kids: Your tone of voice when speaking to your children sets the tone for their way of speaking, even when they speak to themselves. If you have an abrasive way of speaking to them, practice speaking pleasantly.
Professional singers spend countless hours practicing for their audiences. All parents are professional communicators and all children are entitled to be spoken to pleasantly." - Rabbi Zelig Pliskin
Quote from his book, 'Happiness', p.123.
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.49181] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Education is the best provision for the journey to old age!" - Aristotle
Greek philosopher
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.49273] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them!" - Harold Geneen
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.49396] Need Area: Friends > Children
"When we complain, we remain. When we whine, we stay behind. When we praise, we raise!" - Jim Bakker
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.49409] Need Area: Friends > Children
"To recognize great talent, we must encourage dreamers!" - Benjamin West
(1738-1820), American Neoclassical painter and co-founder of the English Royal Academy. He was artistically and stylistically influenced by the following painters - John Wollaston, Titian, Raphael, Joshua Reynolds, Paul Sandby and Thomas Hudson. He was tutored in the basics of portraiture by John Wollaston and later studied under John Valentine Heidt.
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.49435] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Fun is the cheapest and best medicine in the world for your children as well as for yourself. Give it to them in good large doses. It will not only save you doctors' bills, but it will also help to make your children happier, and will improve their chances in life. We should not need half so many prisons, insane asylums, and almshouses if all children had a happy childhood." - Orison Swett Marden
(1848-1924) Quote from his book, 'The Joys of Living'.
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.49437] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Instead of allowing children to grow up with the idea that earning a living is something to be dreaded, a disagreeable necessity, they should be made to feel that the bread and butter side of one's occupation is only a mere incident in one's vocation. One's occupation ought to be the calling in which he manufactures joy as well as a living. Our children should be taught that they will find their Eden of satisfaction in their vocation. They should be trained to think their life occupation is a grand privilege, which will bring supreme joy, if they find their right place in life. They should realize that there is no such thing as drudgery in the work one loves, that it is a perpetual delight, a glorious privilege.
The youth should go to his occupation every morning with as keen anticipation as he would go to the amusement which he loves best." - Orison Swett Marden
(1848-1924) Quote from his book, 'The Joys of Living'.
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.49453] Need Area: Friends > Children
"A good example is far better than a good precept!!" - Dwight Moody
American preacher and publisher
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.49474] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes." - Harold B. Lee
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.49500] Need Area: Friends > Children
"[We rarely do anything we don’t feel and it’s very hard to resist things we do feel. It’s how our brains are structured. So to do any thing...] Focus on emotions. Knowing something isn’t enough to cause change. Make people (or yourself) feel something... the core of the matter is always about changing the behavior of people, and behavior change happens - in highly successful situations - mostly by speaking to people’s feelings. [Talk about features and benefits, retell stories, ask questions, but remember these are just tools to elicit emotions which can then be focused on to motivate change!!]" - Chip and Dan Heath
From the research in their book, 'Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard'.
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.49674] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own!! [Treat others as you would like to be treated - the Golden Rule, Reciprocity.] " - Chinese Proverb
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.49709] Need Area: Friends > Children
"In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens!" - Henry Ward Beecher
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.49728] Need Area: Friends > Children
"There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you." - William Hazlitt
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.49755] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Life skills: ...to make your way through our world there are a number of practical life skills you need to master to be successful. For each of us, living on our own will come in its own time. For some, helping other family members navigate through society is our primary responsibility.
Regardless of your age or circumstance, being as prepared as possible makes navigating our complex society an exciting, rather than a difficult, challenge. Having the knowledge and skills required to go through life responsibly frees your energy and allows you to grow and fully enjoy the experience.
...There are countless rewards and tremendous freedoms to being a responsible person. Knowing how to easily maneuver through your world and make it manageable allows you to approach life with independence, and allows you to reap the benefits that life has to offer ...helping you acquire the basic life skills you need to be the best that you can be - to not only survive, but to thrive." - Tina Pestalozzi
author of 'Life Skills 101: A Practical Guide to Leaving Home and Living on Your Own'. She has collaborated with World Book Discover, part of the World Book Encyclopedia, to create the website 'Life Skills 101' based on her book. The above quote is an abridged version of her introduction to that website. [refer http://www.worldbookonline.com.ezy.sapln.sirsidynix.net.au/wbdiscover/lifeskills etc]
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.49757] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Always be kinder than you feel." - Anon
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.49823] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all!" - Aristotle
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.49866] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up." - John C. Maxwell
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.49877] Need Area: Friends > Children
"There is no perfect way to be a parent... but a million ways to be a good one." - unknown
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.50056] Need Area: Friends > Children
"We must educate our children early, with the knowledge that came to us late [ie. wisdom, lifeskills]! " - Rashad Cartwright
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.50153] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The art of mothering [and fathering] is to teach the art of living to children." - Elaine Heffner
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.50225] Need Area: Friends > Children
"To add value to others one must first value others.
" - John C. Maxwell
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.50264] Need Area: Friends > Children
"What you do has far greater impact than what you say!" - Stephen Covey
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.50281] Need Area: Friends > Children
"I have yet to find the man [or child], however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth a greater effort under a spirit of approval then under a spirit of criticism." - Charles Schwab
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.50289] Need Area: Friends > Children
"A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for." - Pablo Picasso
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.50323] Need Area: Friends > Children
"All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood." - Benjamin Spock
(1903-1998), pediatrician and author
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.50425] Need Area: Friends > Children
"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book." - Marcel Proust
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.50433] Need Area: Friends > Children
"[Individualism: Self-esteem -] Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family." - Virginia Satir
American Psychologist
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.50434] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth [- their self-esteem]. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending." - Virginia Satir
American Pychologist
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.50435] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn [life-skills] how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves." - Virginia Satir
American Pychologist
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.50442] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Two big questions present themselves to every parent in one form or another: 'What kind of human being do I want my child to become?' and 'How can I go about making that happen?' " - Virginia Satir
American Psychologist
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.50444] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Family life is something like an iceberg: most people are aware of only about one-tenth of what is going on — the tenth that they can see and hear!" - Virginia Satir
American Psychologist
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.50446] Need Area: Friends > Children
"I feel that adolescence has served its purpose when a person arrives at adulthood with a strong sense of self-esteem, the ability to relate intimately, to communicate congruently, to take responsibility, and to take risks. The end of adolescence is the beginning of adulthood. What hasn’t been finished then will have to be finished later." - Virginia Satir
American Psychologist
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.50448] Need Area: Friends > Children
"I regard (parenting) as the hardest, most complicated, anxiety-ridden, sweat-and-blood producing job in the world. Succeeding requires the ultimate in patience, common sense, commitment, humor, tact, love, wisdom, awareness, and knowledge. At the same time, it holds the possibility for the most rewarding, joyous experience of a lifetime, namely, that of being successful guides to a new and unique human being." - Virginia Satir
American Psychologist
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.50449] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy... I have often said to parents, 'If it isn’t illegal, immoral, or fattening, give it your blessing.' We do much better ...if we find and support all the places we can appropriately say yes, and say only the no’s [while fully explaining why] that really matter. " - Virginia Satir
American Psychologist
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.50450] Need Area: Friends > Children
"What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting." - Virginia Satir
American Psychologist
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.50490] Need Area: Friends > Children
"[Self-esteem and self-worth from improving self-image and social encouragement:-] Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so." - Thomas Carlyle
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.50511] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The roots of education [disappointments, lessons, mistakes, etc] are bitter, but the fruit [understanding, empowerment, self-esteem, achievement, satisfaction, etc] is sweet!" - Aristotle
Greek philosopher
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.50516] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish!" - Barbara Sher
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
[Quote No.50614] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother [and vice versa].
" - Theodore Hesburgh
Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author
Start Searching Amazon for Gifts
Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
|
Learn Quotes
