It's perfectly clear that the millions of babies, who are crying at this very moment, want unanimously to be next to a live body. Do you really think….

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

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..

Pain and illness, the deaths of those one loves, and discomforts and disappointments mar the happy norm, but they do not alter the fact that happines….

This, at last, was where things were as they ought to be. Everything was in its place -- the tree, the earth underneath, the rock, the moss. In autum….

It is our genetic nature as a species to believe as young children that our parents and elders are right. We watch them to see what's what. Later on ….

Happiness ceases to be a normal condition of being alive, and becomes a goal..

Children need to see that they are assumed to be well-intentioned, naturally social people who are trying to do the right thing and who want reliable….

As a child I was attracted to Tarzan and everything that had to do with jungles. It seemed to me -- and this is in retrospect -- that there was somet….

I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of raising children until they read the ….

Our parents, our tribesman, our authority figures, clearly expect us to be bad or anti-social or greedy or selfish or dirty or destructive or self-de….

The two words that I've arrived at to describe what we all need to feel about ourselves, children and adults, in order to perceive ourselves accurate….

A baby's cry is precisely as serious as it sounds..

We take it for granted that life is hard and feel lucky to have whatever happiness we get. We do not look upon happiness as a birthright, nor do we e….

The broader unquestioned premises upon which my own culture founded its view of the human condition, such as the one that Unhappiness is as legitimat….

I knew, even at eight, that the confusion of values thrust upon me by parents, teachers, other children, nannies, camp counselors, and others would o….