Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood. — Louise J. Kaplan Adolescence Copy Share Image
The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is… — Louise J. Kaplan Adolescent Copy Share Image
In every adult human there still lives a helpless child who is afraid of aloneness… This would be so even if there… — Louise J. Kaplan Adults Copy Share Image
It didn't take elaborate experiments to deduce that an infant would die from want of food. But it took centuries to figure… — Louise J. Kaplan Century Copy Share Image
Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful… — Louise J. Kaplan Adolescence Copy Share Image
We humans, once we have become emotionally invested in a homeplace, a prized personal possession, or, especially, in another person, find it… — Louise J. Kaplan Attachment Copy Share Image
Other people--grandparents, sisters and brothers, the mother's best friend, the next-door neighbor--get to be familiar to the baby. If the mother communicates… — Louise J. Kaplan Baby Copy Share Image
Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions… — Louise J. Kaplan Adults Copy Share Image
Though they themselves might be as surprised as their parents and teachers to hear it said, adolescents--these poignantly thin- skinned and vulnerable,… — Louise J. Kaplan Achieve Copy Share Image
From the beginning moments of life, the urges for each of us to become a self in the world are there--in the… — Louise J. Kaplan Children Copy Share Image
Fathers have a special excitement about them that babies find intriguing. At this time in his life an infant counts on his… — Louise J. Kaplan Baby Copy Share Image
What eleven- to thirteen-year-old boys fear is passivity of any kind. When they do act passively we can be fairly certain that… — Louise J. Kaplan Aggression Copy Share Image
Schoolchildren make up their own rules and enforce their own conformities. They feel safest when leisure time is rationed and dosed. They… — Louise J. Kaplan Children Copy Share Image
We belong to that order of mammals, the primates, distinguished by its propensity for repeated single litters, intense parental care, long life-spans,… — Louise J. Kaplan Aging Copy Share Image
For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social… — Louise J. Kaplan Alterations Copy Share Image
In all times and in all places--in Constantinople, northwestern Zambia, Victorian England, Sparta, Arabia, . . . medieval France,Babylonia, . . .… — Louise J. Kaplan Acquisition Copy Share Image
A man's fatherliness is enriched as much by his acceptance of his feminine and childlike strivings as it is by his memories… — Louise J. Kaplan Able Copy Share Image
Infancy is the realm conveyed to us in dreams which look backward to the past. Adolescence, more like a work of art,… — Louise J. Kaplan Adolescence Copy Share Image
Normally an infant learns to use his mother as a "beacon of orientation" during the first five months of life. The mother's… — Louise J. Kaplan Beacons Copy Share Image
During adolescence imagination is boundless. The urge toward self-perfection is at its peak. And with all their self- absorption and personalized dreams… — Louise J. Kaplan Absorption Copy Share Image
As he walks away on his own two feet--the toddler's body-mind has reached its moment of perfection. The world is his and… — Louise J. Kaplan Acrobat Copy Share Image
Fathers represent another way of looking at life - the possibility of an alternative dialogue. — Louise J. Kaplan Alternatives Copy Share Image
Adolescents are the bearers of cultural renewal, those cycles of generation and regeneration that link our limited individual destinies with the destiny… — Louise J. Kaplan Adolescents Copy Share Image
Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion. — Louise J. Kaplan Adolescence Copy Share Image
The most significant change wrought by adolescence is the taming of the ideals by which a person measures himself. . . .… — Louise J. Kaplan Adolescence Copy Share Image
Hopefulness is the heartbeat of the relationship between a parent and child. Each time a child overcomes the next challenge of hislife,… — Louise J. Kaplan Challenges Copy Share Image
It is not speech or tool making that distinguishes us from other animals, it is imagination…Of what use are speech sounds and… — Louise J. Kaplan Animal Copy Share Image
We humans undergo two major growth spurts: one during infancy and another from eleven to twelve until fifteen or sixteen--pubescence. Between the… — Louise J. Kaplan Body Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction--a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on… — Louise J. Kaplan Active Copy Share Image
Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human… — Louise J. Kaplan Adolescence Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the toddler's "No" is also a preliminary to his saying yes. It is a sign that he is getting ready to… — Louise J. Kaplan Behavior Copy Share Image
The invisible bond that gives the baby rein to discover his place in the world also brings the creeping baby back to… — Louise J. Kaplan Adventure Copy Share Image
The adolescent frequently supposes that she is breaking out of the confines of her mundane, schoolgirl existence simply in order to break… — Louise J. Kaplan Adolescence Copy Share Image
Another potentiality of our irrepressible juvenility is a capacity to maintain until the onset of senility an active creative interaction with our… — Louise J. Kaplan Active Copy Share Image
When a child becomes an adult . . . the elders are fearful. And for good reason . . . not we… — Louise J. Kaplan Adolescence Copy Share Image
The purpose of adolescence is to revise the past, not to obliterate it. . . . Adolescence entails the deployment of family… — Louise J. Kaplan Adolescence Copy Share Image
It is an odd fact that what we now know of the mental and emotional life of infants surpasses what we comprehend… — Louise J. Kaplan Adolescence Copy Share Image
It is a human circumstance that when we are born we have not yet come into existence. We are lured into our… — Louise J. Kaplan Born Copy Share Image
Mothers tend to encourage their sons to run away and romp… Mothers of little boys often complain that "There's no controlling him."… — Louise J. Kaplan Being overwhelmed Copy Share Image
By directing our sentiments, passions, and reason toward the common human plight, imagination grants us the advantages of a moralexistence. What we… — Louise J. Kaplan Advantage Copy Share Image
