If your child is going to develop a healthy personality with the capacity to remain intact and grow, she must learn how to test reality, regulate her impulses, stabilize her moods, integrate her feelings and actions, focus her concentration and… — Stanley Greenspan Copy Share Image
A new world of complex relationships and feelings opens up when the peer group takes its place alongside the family as the emotional focus… — Stanley Greenspan Copy Share Image
If our society were truly to appreciate the significance of children's emotional ties throughout the first years of life, it would no longer tolerate… — Stanley Greenspan Copy Share Image
Self-esteem is an inner feeling: Sometimes it corresponds with outer reality, and sometimes it doesn’t. — Stanley Greenspan Copy Share Image
To be motivated to sit at home and study, instead of going out and playing, children need a sense of themselves over time--they need… — Stanley Greenspan Copy Share Image
If you do a little bit of looking at books with your children and inspire them to be curious about the pictures and ...… — Stanley Greenspan Copy Share Image
If your child is going to develop a healthy personality with the capacity to remain intact and grow, she must learn how to test… — Stanley Greenspan Copy Share Image
We need to take a less narrow look at our children’s problems and, instead, see them as windows of opportunity—a way of exploring and… — Stanley Greenspan Copy Share Image
Imagine driving a car that isn't working well. When you step on the gas the car sometimes lurches forward and sometimes doesn't respond. When… — Stanley Greenspan Copy Share Image
Learning first occurs as a part of emotional interactions; it involves the split-second initiatives that children take as they try to engage other people,interact… — Stanley Greenspan Copy Share Image
Parents are led to believe that they must be consistent, that is, always respond to the same issue the same way. Consistency is good… — Stanley Greenspan Copy Share Image
Although pretend play is important, it is still the means to an end, not the end itself. Do not make the mistake of thinking… — Stanley Greenspan Copy Share Image
