Many children grow through adolescence with no ripples whatever and land smoothly and predictably in the adult world with both feet on the ground. So…

- Stella Chess

Parents' ability to survive a child's unabating needs, wants, and demands...varies enormously. Some people can give and give....Whether children are …

- Stella Chess

You can read the best experts on child care. You can listen to those who have been there. You can take a whole childbirth and child-care course witho…

- Stella Chess

Adolescents may be, almost simultaneously, overconfident and riddled with fear. They are afraid of their overpowering feelings, oflosing control, of …

- Stella Chess

An actress reading a part for the first time tries many ways to say the same line before she settles into the one she believes suits the character an…

- Stella Chess

Life begins at six--at least in the minds of six-year-olds. . . . In kindergarten you are the baby. In first grade you put down the baby. . . . Every…

- Stella Chess

Fathers can seem powerful and overwhelming to their daughters. Let her see your soft side. Express your feelings and reactions. Tell her where you ca…

- Stella Chess

A child is nothing like a racing car. . . . Souping up babies doesn't work that way. The child is what she is. There is a certainirreducible if elusi…

- Stella Chess

Four- and five-year-olds' play is permeated with the rankest sexism. No matter what their parents do and say, they play their momand pop roles in ult…

- Stella Chess