Silence Is So Powerful, So

The Roots Of A Child's Ability To Cope And Thrive, Regardless Of Circumstance, Lie In That Child's Having Had At Least A Small, Safe Place (an Apartment? A Room? A Lap?) In Which, In The Companionship Of A Loving Person, That Child Could Discover That He Or She Was Lovable And Capable Of Loving In Return. If A Child Finds This During The First Years Of Life, He Or She Can Grow Up To Be A Competent, Healthy Person.

It's A Mistake To Think That We Have To Be Lovely To Be Loved By Human Beings Or By God

And Those Handmade Presents That Children Often Bring Home From School: They Have So Much Value! The Value Is That The Child Put Whatever He Or She Could Into Making Them. The Way We Parents Respond To The Giving Of Such Gifts Is Very Important. To The Child The Gift Is Really Self, And They Want So Much For Their Selves To Be Acceptable, To Be Loved.

I Think Of Discipline As The Continual Everyday Process Of Helping A Child Learn Self-discipline.

When We Leave Our Child In Nursery School For The First Time, It Won't Be Just Our Child's Feelings About Separation That We Will Have To Cope With, But Our Own Feelings As Well-from Our Present And From Our Past, Parents Are Extra Vulnerable To New Tremors From Old Earthquakes.