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…

- Selma Fraiberg

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 …

- Selma Fraiberg

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 …

- Selma Fraiberg

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…

- Selma Fraiberg

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…

- Selma Fraiberg

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…

- Selma Fraiberg

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 …

- Selma Fraiberg

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…

- Selma Fraiberg

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…

- Selma Fraiberg