A method of child-rearing is not--or should not be--a whim, a fashion or a shibboleth. It should derive from an understanding of… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
Today's mom watches her every child-rearing step lest she commit some egregious and apocalyptic parenting faux pas that will certainly doom her… — John Rosemond Copy Share Image
There's a marketing scheme that tells you that pregnancy and child rearing will make you into a moron, that your kids are… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Women who work with animals hear this all the time: that their love for animals must arise out of a sublimated child-rearing… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Fashions change, and with the new psychoanalytical perspective of the postwar period [WWII], child rearing became enshrined as thespecial responsibility of mothersany… — Sylvia Ann Hewlett Copy Share Image
“The most effective alternative process [to punishment] is probably extinction. This takes time but is much more rapid than allowing the response… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
No one who traces the history of motherhood, of the home, of child-rearing practices will ever assume the eternal permanence of our… — Jessie Bernard Copy Share Image
“You put a certain amount of effort into stitching a jacket or dress and you get the garment you expect. There's no… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“I can speak of our baby like this to no one else. Who but his father would linger over the exact width… — Phillippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“No intelligent radical can fail to realize the need of the rational education of the young. The rearing of the child must… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success. — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
There is a trend in child-rearing that I find abhorrent: "Whatever the kids want to do is fine." For me, the classic… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“By the time she a year old Mae Mobley following me around everwhere I go….Miss Leefolt, she’d narrow up her eyes at… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The only effective way to help well-intentioned, intelligent persons to do the best they can in raising children is to encourage and… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
The authoritarian child-rearing style so often found in working-class families stems in part from the fact that parents see aroundthem so many… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
Most advice on child-rearing is sought in the hope that it will confirm our prior convictions. If the parent had wished to… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval. — Phil Donahue Copy Share Image
We've learned that women can and should do 'men's jobs,' for instance, and we've won the principle (if not the fact) of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In the years of the Roman Republic, before the Christian era, Roman education was meant to produce those character traits that would… — C. Sommerville Copy Share Image
If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal of decentering from one's… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
“There are a hundred ways in which a boy can injure—if not indeed kill—himself. The more adventurous he is and the greater… — Christopher Milne Copy Share Image
