Whenever reality reinforces a child's fantasied dangers, the child will have more difficulty in overcoming them...So, while parents may not regard a ….

For the child whose impulsiveness is indulged, who retains his primitive-discharge mechanisms, is not only an ill-behaved child but a child whose int….

The parent who loves his child dearly but asks for nothing in return might qualify as a saint, but he will not qualify as a parent. For a child who c….

It can be fairly argued that the highest priority for mankind is to save itself from extinction. However, it can also be argued th at a society that ….

An older child, one who possesses a conscience, will be troubled with self-reproaches and feelings of shame for his naughtiness, even if he is not di….

Mental health depends upon the maintenance of a balance within the personality between the basic human urges and egocentric wisheson the one hand and….

A two-year-old can be taught to curb his aggressions completely if the parents employ strong enough methods, but the achievement of such control at a….

It seems to me that we have to draw the line in sibling rivalry whenever rivalry goes out of bounds into destructive behavior of aphysical or verbal ….

It no longer makes sense to speak of "feeding problems" or "sleep problems" or "negative behavior" is if they were distinct categories, but to speak ….

The child begins life as a pleasure-seeking animal; his infantile personality is organized around his own appetites and his own body. In the course o….

It can be demonstrated that the child's contact with the real world is strengthened by his periodic excursions into fantasy. It becomes easier to tol….

We have good reason to believe that memories of early childhood do not persist in consciousness because of the absence or fragmentary character of la….

Language makes it possible for a child to incorporate his parents' verbal prohibitions, to make them part of himself....We don't speak of a conscienc….

Our survival as a human community may depend as much upon our nurture of love in infancy and childhood as upon the protection of our society from ext….

We find that the child who does not yet have language at his command, the child under two and a half, will be able to cooperate with our education if….

We find that even the parents who justify spanking to themselves are defensive and embarrassed about it....I suspect that deep inthe memory of every ….

There must be a solemn and terrible aloneness that comes over the child as he takes those first independent steps. All this is lost to memory and we ….

The experience of a sense of guilt for wrong-doing is necessary for the development of self-control. The guilt feelings will laterserve as a warning ….

Parents who want a fresh point of view on their furniture are advised to drop down on all fours and accompany the nine or ten month old on his rounds….

A method of child-rearing is not--or should not be--a whim, a fashion or a shibboleth. It should derive from an understanding of the developing child….

We must remember when we speak of the "negativism" of the toddler that this is also the child who is intoxicated with the discoveries of the second y….