Ashamed Quote by Dorothy Nolte

If children live with hostility, they learn to fight. If they live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive. If they live with criticism,…

— Ron Finley

“With the child already shame-based, the feeling of discouragement takes over the whole personality. As the shame-based child forms her primitive conscience, shame becomes…

— John Bradshaw

Children learn what they live. If a child lives with criticism... he learns to condemn. If he lives with hostility... he learns to fight.…

— Dorothy Nolte

“During school age, the bright, shame-based child will attempt to develop inhuman ego defenses or defending scripts, such as perfectionism, blaming, criticizing, righteousness or…

— John Bradshaw

“Children Learn What They Live. If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn. If a child lives with hostility, he learns to…

— Dorothy Law Neite

If a child lives with criticism, it learns to condemn. If a child lives with hostility, it learns to fight. If a child lives…

— Ritu Ghatourey

Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem. It is heartbreaking how criticism can wound children and diminish their self-esteem.

— H. Burke Peterson

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

— Samuel Richardson

Without a sense of the shame or guilt of his or her action, the child will only be hardened in rebellion by physical punishment.…

— C. Sommerville

“I found out that “Shame is a reaction to other people’s criticism, an acute personal chagrin at our failure to live up to our…

— Paul G. Hiebert

“Crushing the toddler’s autonomy and purposeful will is the most damaging form of shaming that can be done. When autonomy is crushed, toxic shame…

— John Bradshaw

“Parental criticism is unhelpful. It creates anger and resentment. Even worse, children who are regularly criticized learn to condemn themselves and others. They learn…

— Haim G. Ginott