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

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

Happiness ceases to be a normal condition of being alive, and becomes a goal.

- 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.

- 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…

- 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…

- 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…

- 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 …

- Jean Liedloff