A method of child-rearing is not--or should not be--a whim, a fashion or a shibboleth. It should derive from an understanding of… — Selma Fraiberg Behavior Copy Share Image
We must remember when we speak of the "negativism" of the toddler that this is also the child who is intoxicated with… — Selma Fraiberg Anarchy Copy Share Image
Whenever reality reinforces a child's fantasied dangers, the child will have more difficulty in overcoming them...So, while parents may not regard a… — Selma Fraiberg Assault Copy Share Image
Our survival as a human community may depend as much upon our nurture of love in infancy and childhood as upon the… — Selma Fraiberg Childhood Copy Share Image
It no longer makes sense to speak of "feeding problems" or "sleep problems" or "negative behavior" is if they were distinct categories,… — Selma Fraiberg Behavior Copy Share Image
The experience of a sense of guilt for wrong-doing is necessary for the development of self-control. The guilt feelings will laterserve as… — Selma Fraiberg Adults Copy Share Image
It seems to me that we have to draw the line in sibling rivalry whenever rivalry goes out of bounds into destructive… — Selma Fraiberg Behavior Copy Share Image
There must be a solemn and terrible aloneness that comes over the child as he takes those first independent steps. All this… — Selma Fraiberg Analogies Copy Share Image
We find that the child who does not yet have language at his command, the child under two and a half, will… — Selma Fraiberg Able Copy Share Image
Parents who want a fresh point of view on their furniture are advised to drop down on all fours and accompany the… — Selma Fraiberg Accompany Copy Share Image
An older child, one who possesses a conscience, will be troubled with self-reproaches and feelings of shame for his naughtiness, even if… — Selma Fraiberg Anticipate Copy Share Image
The child begins life as a pleasure-seeking animal; his infantile personality is organized around his own appetites and his own body. In… — Selma Fraiberg Animal Copy Share Image
The parent who loves his child dearly but asks for nothing in return might qualify as a saint, but he will not… — Selma Fraiberg Asks Copy Share Image
If we can find a principle to guide us in the handling of the child between nine and eighteen months, we can… — Selma Fraiberg Children Copy Share Image
It can be demonstrated that the child's contact with the real world is strengthened by his periodic excursions into fantasy. It becomes… — Selma Fraiberg Achieve Copy Share Image
For the child whose impulsiveness is indulged, who retains his primitive-discharge mechanisms, is not only an ill-behaved child but a child whose… — Selma Fraiberg Action Copy Share Image
We have good reason to believe that memories of early childhood do not persist in consciousness because of the absence or fragmentary… — Selma Fraiberg Absence Copy Share Image
We find that even the parents who justify spanking to themselves are defensive and embarrassed about it....I suspect that deep inthe memory… — Selma Fraiberg Childhood Copy Share Image
Mental health depends upon the maintenance of a balance within the personality between the basic human urges and egocentric wisheson the one… — Selma Fraiberg Balance Copy Share Image
It can be fairly argued that the highest priority for mankind is to save itself from extinction. However, it can also be… — Selma Fraiberg Children Copy Share Image
Language makes it possible for a child to incorporate his parents' verbal prohibitions, to make them part of himself....We don't speak of… — Selma Fraiberg Achievement Copy Share Image
A two-year-old can be taught to curb his aggressions completely if the parents employ strong enough methods, but the achievement of such… — Selma Fraiberg Achievement Copy Share Image
