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the role of the parent is to teach and help the child to cope with unpredictable circumstances and events.”
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
The Brilliance of Attachment
The text explores attachment theory, detailing secure and insecure attachment styles, their development in children, and their impact on emotional regulation and relationships throughout life.
robyngobbel.comFeeling the body from the inside is one of the main ways a child comes to know herself and form a stable sense of self.
Steven Kessler • The 5 Personality Patterns: Your Guide to Understanding Yourself and Others and Developing Emotional Maturity
But as in the example of Elizabeth above, children need honest and constructive feedback. If children are “protected” from it, they won’t learn well.
Carol S. Dweck • Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential
While a child’s behavior is subject to modification that brings the child more closely in line with its essential being, their core must be unconditionally celebrated.
His Holiness The Dalai Lama • The Conscious Parent
But while the changes in a dad’s brain do resemble those in a mom’s, the dad brain also drives contributions that are different from mom’s. For mom, it’s baby talk and staring into the baby’s eyes; for dad, it’s playful touching and behavior, physically moving the baby, and introducing the baby to new objects.34
John Gray PhD • The Boy Crisis
These people have all developed the art of not experiencing feelings, for a child can experience her feelings only when there is somebody there who accepts her fully, understands her, and supports her. If that person is missing, if the child must risk losing the mother’s love or the love of her substitute in order to feel, then she will repress her
... See moreAlice Miller • The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
Even when we are called upon to discipline, consciousness shows us how to do so in a manner that bolsters our child’s spirit rather than diminishing it.
His Holiness The Dalai Lama • The Conscious Parent
Another way we know that children learn these messages is that we can see how they pass them on. Even young children are ready to pass on the wisdom they’ve learned.