Though they themselves might be as surprised as their parents and teachers to hear it said, adolescents--these poignantly thin- skinned and vulnerable, passionate and impulsive, starkly sexual and monstrously self-absorbed creatures--are, in fact, avid seekers of moral authenticity. They wish… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Adolescents are the bearers of cultural renewal, those cycles of generation and regeneration that link our limited individual destinies with the destiny of the species. — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
As he walks away on his own two feet--the toddler's body-mind has reached its moment of perfection. The world is his and he the… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share
In all times and in all places--in Constantinople, northwestern Zambia, Victorian England, Sparta, Arabia, . . . medieval France,Babylonia, . . . Carthage, Mahenjo-Daro,… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share
We humans, once we have become emotionally invested in a homeplace, a prized personal possession, or, especially, in another person, find it immensely difficult… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share
We belong to that order of mammals, the primates, distinguished by its propensity for repeated single litters, intense parental care, long life-spans, late sexual… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share
Normally an infant learns to use his mother as a "beacon of orientation" during the first five months of life. The mother's presence is… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share
A man's fatherliness is enriched as much by his acceptance of his feminine and childlike strivings as it is by his memories of tender… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share
For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social duties, her… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share
Infancy is the realm conveyed to us in dreams which look backward to the past. Adolescence, more like a work of art, is a… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share
In every adult human there still lives a helpless child who is afraid of aloneness… This would be so even if there were a… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share
Though they themselves might be as surprised as their parents and teachers to hear it said, adolescents--these poignantly thin- skinned and vulnerable, passionate and… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share
During adolescence imagination is boundless. The urge toward self-perfection is at its peak. And with all their self- absorption and personalized dreams of glory,… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share
Fathers have a special excitement about them that babies find intriguing. At this time in his life an infant counts on his motherfor rootedness… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share
Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share
What eleven- to thirteen-year-old boys fear is passivity of any kind. When they do act passively we can be fairly certain that it is… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share
Other people--grandparents, sisters and brothers, the mother's best friend, the next-door neighbor--get to be familiar to the baby. If the mother communicates her trust… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share
