Jean Liedloff

This, at last, was where things were as they ought to be. Everything was in its place -- the tree, the earth…

— Jean Liedloff

Happiness ceases to be a normal condition of being alive, and becomes a goal.

— Jean Liedloff

I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of…

— Jean Liedloff

The two words that I've arrived at to describe what we all need to feel about ourselves, children and adults, in order…

— Jean Liedloff

We take it for granted that life is hard and feel lucky to have whatever happiness we get. We do not look…

— Jean Liedloff

The broader unquestioned premises upon which my own culture founded its view of the human condition, such as the one that Unhappiness…

— Jean Liedloff

It is our genetic nature as a species to believe as young children that our parents and elders are right. We watch…

— Jean Liedloff

Children need to see that they are assumed to be well-intentioned, naturally social people who are trying to do the right thing…

— Jean Liedloff

Our parents, our tribesman, our authority figures, clearly expect us to be bad or anti-social or greedy or selfish or dirty or…

— Jean Liedloff

I knew, even at eight, that the confusion of values thrust upon me by parents, teachers, other children, nannies, camp counselors, and…

— Jean Liedloff

It's perfectly clear that the millions of babies, who are crying at this very moment, want unanimously to be next to a…

— Jean Liedloff

As a child I was attracted to Tarzan and everything that had to do with jungles. It seemed to me -- and…

— Jean Liedloff

A baby's cry is precisely as serious as it sounds.

— Jean Liedloff

Our own system of trying to guess what or how much a child's mind can assimilate results in cross purposes, misunderstanding, disappointments,…

— Jean Liedloff

Pain and illness, the deaths of those one loves, and discomforts and disappointments mar the happy norm, but they do not alter…

— Jean Liedloff

Nobody's born rotten. You just don't have bad kids. It's not true. There is no such thing. But we can make them…

— Jean Liedloff