Children Quote by Alice Miller

Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of…

— Alice Miller

“Why isn't there a commandment to "honor thy children" or at least one to "not abuse thy children"? The notion that we must honor…

— Beverly Engel

Parents are to be respected - it Is a commandment from God.

— Monica Johnson

“My belief is that the time has come for us to take the injuries of childhood and their consequences seriously. We must free ourselves…

— Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child

I feel like that's so ingrained in so many children that you are so confined and repressed growing up that, anything you do, you…

— Ellar Coltrane

“It is highly significant, perplexing to say the least, that we have been bound for thousands of years to a commandment that hardly anyone…

— Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child

“Some sense that to repress feelings of their childhood is to poison the very well-springs of life; they know that though repression may have…

— Alice Miller

“They behave towards their therapists as they perceive themselves to have been treated by their absent parents. They make their therapists feel very fully…

— Ved P. Varma

I know that many people disagree with the way I disciplined my child. I also understand after meeting with a psychologist that there are…

— Adrian Peterson

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or…

— Jane Austen

Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.

— Plutarch

Child abuse is still sanctioned — indeed, held in high regard — in our society as long as it is defined as child-rearing. It…

— Alice Miller