Quotes About Development

No kid was going to go to school in a place that looked like freaking Buckingham Palace and come out of it resilient.

It was as if she were being picked up and put down again in each new stage of her life like a chess piece. She

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Your child was a little stranger, constantly changing, disappearing and reintroducing himself to you

Nowadays we label children too quickly as bullying, when in fact they can only behave like children.

But we can't go back. We can only go forward.

But we can't go back. We can only go forward.

to have reached perfection that the seeds of its decay begin to germinate.

If another Messiah was born he could hardly to so much good as the printing-press.

The most important emotional accomplishment of the toddler years is reconciling the urge to become competent and self-reliant with the longing for parental love and protection.

Loving parental care has unmatched transformational powers in restoring the child's developmental momentum in risk situations.

Babies and young children thrive when they feel secure in their parents' care as they experiment with their bodies, relationships, and physical environment. When the child cannot feel safe because the parent is consistently unavailable, unpredictable, or frightening, the basic conditions that promote early mental health are severely undermined.

Toddlers who don't learn gradually about disappointment lose their resilience through lack of practice in give-and-take with other people's needs. They can become self-centered, demanding, and difficult to like or to be with.

Whether mothers speak with words or with body language -- which girls usually understand as well as declarative sentences -- a mother's feelings become a reference point for a daughter in her growing-up years.

Our own system of trying to guess what or how much a child's mind can assimilate results in cross purposes, misunderstanding, disappointments, anger and a general loss of harmony.

I knew, even at eight, that the confusion of values thrust upon me by parents, teachers, other children, nannies, camp counselors, and others would only worsen as I grew up. The years would add complications and steer me into more and more impenetrable tangles of rights and wrongs, desirables and undesirables. I had already seen enough to know that.

Nobody's born rotten. You just don't have bad kids. It's not true. There is no such thing. But we can make them bad.

That's one of the benefits of working on big budget films. You work with people who have a lot of experience and you get to learn a lot.

It turns out that saying, "You can't teach an old dog new tricks," doesn't apply to humans. Research now reveals that our brains are continuously changing, producing new growth, making new connections. It doesn't matter how old we are, we are still under construction, learning as we go along.

Optimism works in conjunction with your life energy, strengthening your roots and keeping you grounded, stimulating the growth of new shoots and the development of new branches that form your life, energizing the creation that is you.

Concrete arteries brought prosperity, like the historical iron horses galloping from coast to coast over the graves of the indigenous, but they were also digestive pathways, and a whole lot of shit ran off them.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

Acting childish seems to come naturally, but acting like an adult, no matter how old we are, just doesn't come easy to us.