Children Quote by Anna Freud

“As children, because of our dependency, we experience a sense of being powerless in a world of powerful people. If our home environments are…

— Susan Forward

“A child is one of the most common results of the lack or loss of self-control.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Often children who survive extremely adverse childhoods have learned a particular survival strategy. I call it ‘strategic detachment.’ This is not the withdrawal from…

— Nathaniel Branden

“Sometimes it is very difficult to keep in mind the fact that the parents, too, have reasons for what they do-- have reasons, locked…

— Virginia M. Axline

“Pretty straightforwardly, the more categories of adversities a child suffers, the dimmer his or her chances of a happy, functional adulthood.45”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“. . . when a mother shares adult concerns with her daughter, a healthy dependence becomes impossible; the daughter feels insecure and alone because…

— Karyl McBride

“What's critical is that parents convey to their children that by allowing them more independence, you are not in any way pulling back on…

— Melissa Shultz

“When a child isn't allowed to deal with his frustrations on his own—to cry, for instance, then to handle the situation, and then to…

— Susan Forward

The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.

— Kate Thompson

“...remaining adolescent means rejecting all compensatory lies about one's life...”

— Chris Kraus

“Children can be too hard on their parents, until they learn themselves how hard life can be.”

— David Clement-Davies

“Don’t trouble yourself with the woes of life, for they will only prevent you from giving all of yourself to others. A child needs…

— Dannika Dark