Child Quotes by Penelope Leach

Whatever you do to your child's body, you are doing to your child's mind too.

— Penelope Leach

You know that your toddler needed love and approval but he often seemed not to care whether he got it or not and never…

— Penelope Leach

Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now or in…

— Penelope Leach

For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does 'just for fun' and things…

— Penelope Leach

A baby who cannot relax can be helped to do so by a variety of constant rhythmical stimuli. it will work if the trouble…

— Penelope Leach

Your preschool child will chatter endlessly to you. If you half-listen and half-reply the whole conversation will seem, and become, tediously meaningless for both…

— Penelope Leach

Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives.

— Penelope Leach

Grown-up people do very little and say a great deal… Toddlers say very little and do a great deal… With a toddler you cannot…

— Penelope Leach

A preschool child does not emerge from your toddler on a given date or birthday. He becomes a child when he ceases to be…

— Penelope Leach

Your toddler will be "good" if he feels like doing what you happen to want him to do and does not happen to feel…

— Penelope Leach

Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being "fearless" means being without fear.

— Penelope Leach

There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby's. Your…

— Penelope Leach

Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you…

— Penelope Leach

Children do not need superhuman, perfect parents. They have always managed with good enough parents: the parents they happened to have.

— Penelope Leach

Two generations ago only a few unfortunate children ever saw anyone hit over the head with a brick, shot, rammed by a car, blown…

— Penelope Leach