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“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

“Because so much of the needy mother's energies go into her own suffering, she has little left over for her children's needs. Her son…

— Susan Forward

INDEPENDENT: How we want our children to be as long as they do everything we say.

— Nikhil Saluja

The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. Adults work to finish a task, but the child works…

— Maria Montessori

Children who have learned to be comfortably dependent can become not only comfortably independent but also comfortable with having people depend on them. They…

— Fred Rogers

“When your children are very young it is impossible to imagine a life where they will not live with you, where you will not…

— Maureen Wheeler

“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

Parents' ability to survive a child's unabating needs, wants, and demands...varies enormously. Some people can give and give....Whether children are good or bad, brilliant…

— Stella Chess

“It is a central paradox of contemporary parenting, in fact: we have an acute, almost biological impulse to provide for our children, to give…

— Paul Tough

Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“The goal of independence starts at birth and mothers who want to stay with their infants most of the time are viewed as ‘possessive’…

— Gabrielle Palmer

My kids learned to be independent.

— Andie MacDowell