32 Quotes About Child-development
- Author Henrik Ibsen
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Det bringer nemesis over avkommet at gifte sig av udenforliggende grunde.
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- Author Sally Fryer Dietz
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There are many things we don’t understand, and many ways to unlock the brain and maximize function. Don’t ever let anybody tell you it can’t be done.
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- Author Karyl McBride
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When children can’t rely on their parents to meet their needs, they cannot develop a sense of safety, trust, or confidence. Trust is a colossal development issue. Without the learning of trust in our early years, we are set up to have a major handicap with believing in ourselves and feeling safe in intimate connections.
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- Author John Bradshaw
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Since the earliest period of our life was preverbal, everything depended on emotional interaction. Without someone to reflect our emotions, we had no way of knowing who we were.
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- Author Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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At the beginning of all growth, everything imitates. All of us, when we were children, also only imitated. But children grow up and begin their own development.
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- Author Moshé Feldenkrais
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The problem is that much of what we have learned is harmful to our system because it was learned in childhood, when immediate dependence on others distorted our real needs. Long-standing habitual action feels right. Training a body to be perfect in all the possible forms and configurations of its members changes not only the strength and flexibility of the skeleton and muscles, but makes a profound and beneficial change in the self-image and quality of the direction of the self.
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- Author Carolyn Parkhurst
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Imagine that your child is born with wings.
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- Author Sally Fryer Dietz
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I believe the only real limits in life, are the ones we put on ourselves and/or others….so I say forget the limits and “go for it.” You may be surprised at what is really possible!
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- Author David B. Givens
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A growing body of evidence suggests that teaching babies ASL may improve their ability to speak. Again, this indicates a link between manual signing and vocal speech. Babies express cognitive abilities through certain hand gestures (e.g., by pointing with the index finger) earlier than they do through articulated words (the latter require more refined oral motor skills, which very young babies do not yet possess).
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