I started my career in parent education with the idea that we needed to let our kids go. I believed that parents were suffocating for their children. There was no room for individuality and personhood. — Gordon Neufeld Copy Share Image
It is a parent's responsibility to preserve the connection with their children, to preserve the relationship, so that the children can let go and become their own selves. — Gordon Neufeld Copy Share Image
“In thousands of little ways, we pull and push our children to grow up, hurrying them along instead of inviting them to rest. We… — Gordon Neufeld Copy Share Image
“Children do not experience our intentions, no matter how heartfelt. They experience what we manifest in tone and behavior.” — Gordon Neufeld Copy Share Image
Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children. — Gordon Neufeld Copy Share Image
We have lost sight of nature's role in the whole process of maturation and growing up. Parents and nature are a team. And nature… — Gordon Neufeld Copy Share Image
Children need to trust and depend upon those who are responsible for them. — Gordon Neufeld Copy Share Image
“As children grow, they have an increasing need to orient: to have a sense of who they are, of what is real, why things… — Gordon Neufeld Copy Share Image
“Unconditional parental love is the indespensible nutrient for the child's healthy emotional growth. The first task is to create space in the child's heart… — Gordon Neufeld Copy Share Image
“thus educators learn about teaching subjects but not about the essential importance of connected relationships to the learning process of young human beings.” — Gordon Neufeld Copy Share Image
“less mature a person is, the more he will rely on this basic mode of attaching. Peer-oriented kids like Cynthia are preoccupied with being… — Gordon Neufeld Copy Share Image
“What to us looks like independence is really just dependence transferred. We are in such a hurry for our children to be able to… — Gordon Neufeld Copy Share Image
“Increasingly, children’s behavioral problems are ascribed to various medical syndromes such as oppositional defiant disorder or attention deficit disorder. These diagnoses at least have… — Gordon Neufeld Copy Share Image
“The key to activating maturation is to take care of the attachment needs of the child. To foster independance we must first invite dependance;… — Gordon Neufeld Copy Share Image
