Quotes About Development

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For many years the conviction has grown upon me that civilization arises and unfolds in and as play.

A relationship does not start the day two people meet; it starts in the childhood of each partner. For it is long before they meet that the template of their relationship is established.

Friendship with children unwraps their hidden potentials.

Friendship with children empowers them to succeed.

My best friend is the one who builds my character and improves my life.

Friendship With Children Contributes To Their Psychosocial Development

Every friendship has its own seed.

Every friendship has its own children.

Friendship with children is fundamental for their spiritual development.

Every friend loves to change for the best; but few really do.

The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through …

That's sort of growing up, I guess. Forgetting the things you used to love.

The word "innovation" comes from the Latin words in and novare, meaning "to make something new, to change".

Be ye perfect is not. . .a command to do the impossible. [God] is going to make us into creatures that can obey that command.

The dot that became a speck that became a blob that became a figure that became a boy

I think perhaps the adults we become are formed in childhood and there's no way around it.

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all misbehaving children are dis-couraged. Having lost heart, they believe they must manipulate in order to get their needs met.

With the child already shame-based, the feeling of discouragement takes over the whole personality. As the shame-based child forms her primitive conscience, shame becomes immorality or neurotic guilt. The conforming child believes he can do nothing right

To develop strong ego boundaries, children need parents with strong boundaries. No shame-based parent has these. Toxic shame greatly damages our boundaries. Without strong boundaries for protection, a child cannot thrive. Having damaged boundaries is like living in a house without locks on the doors.

Besides lack of mirroring, abandonment includes: neglect of developmental dependency needs, abuse of any kind and enmeshment into the covert or overt needs of the parents or the family system. Abandonment induces shame in the child who is utterly dependent on the parents.

The most dominant need that any child has is to gradually move from the complete environmental support of infancy and childhood to the self-support of maturity.

The first developmental task in life is to establish a basic sense of trust. We must learn that the other (Mom, Dad, the world out there) is safe and trustworthy.