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 reactions from their elders to guide them.
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… - Jean Liedloff
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…
- Jean Liedloff
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 … - Jean Liedloff
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. - Jean Liedloff
Happiness ceases to be a normal condition of being alive, and becomes a goal.
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… - Jean Liedloff
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…
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. - Jean Liedloff
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… - Jean Liedloff
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…
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… - Jean Liedloff
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 … - Jean Liedloff
Our own system of trying to guess what or how much a child's mind can assimilate results in cross purposes, misunderstanding, disappointments, anger …
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… - Jean Liedloff
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…
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