Normally an infant learns to use his mother as a "beacon of orientation" during the first five months of life. The mother's presence is like a fixed …

- Louise J. Kaplan

We humans, once we have become emotionally invested in a homeplace, a prized personal possession, or, especially, in another person, find it immensel…

- Louise J. Kaplan

It is a human circumstance that when we are born we have not yet come into existence. We are lured into our special human existence by a mothering pr…

- Louise J. Kaplan

Hopefulness is the heartbeat of the relationship between a parent and child. Each time a child overcomes the next challenge of hislife, his triumph e…

- Louise J. Kaplan

The invisible bond that gives the baby rein to discover his place in the world also brings the creeping baby back to home base....In this way he rech…

- Louise J. Kaplan

Though they themselves might be as surprised as their parents and teachers to hear it said, adolescents--these poignantly thin- skinned and vulnerabl…

- Louise J. Kaplan

Fathers represent another way of looking at life - the possibility of an alternative dialogue.

- Louise J. Kaplan

Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human nature a…

- Louise J. Kaplan

Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to g…

- Louise J. Kaplan