Adults Quote by E. M. Delafield

I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My…

— Hermann Hesse

“Having an emotional intolerance for helplessness can lead to parental behaviors that target that helplessness in children and attack them for it... When their…

— Daniel Siegel

The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.

— Nathaniel Branden

The child is much more spiritually elevated than is usually supposed. He often suffers, not from too much work, but from work that is…

— Maria Montessori

The art of not experiencing feelings. A child can experience her feelings only when there is somebody there who accepts her fully, understands her,…

— Alice Miller

“A mind blocked by fear, anxiety, anger, resentment, or suffering of any kind isn't able to experience expanded awareness, much less pure awareness.”

— Deepak Chopra

Every life and every childhood is filled with frustrations; we cannot imagine it otherwise, for even the best mother cannot satisfy all her child's…

— Alice Miller

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

— Sigmund Freud

“It doesn't matter what the manifest problem was in our childhood family. In a home where a child is emotionally deprived for one reason…

— M. Catherine Thomas

“I know that many people won’t believe that a child not yet eleven is capable of such feelings. It is not to those people…

— Hermann Hesse

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

— Jane Smiley

“Children parented in such a manner never come up against the necessary frustration that accompanies facing the impossible. They are deprived of the experience…

— Gordon Neufeld