Character Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being without any conflicts, and have assumed that the…

— Melanie Klein

“…hearts wrung with anguish, the anguish of having children, a vulnerability as astonishing as the capacity for love that parenthood brings.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Wayward, disobedient children cause their parents grief and anxiety.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

“Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to…

— Paul Coelho

“Often children who survive extremely adverse childhoods have learned a particular survival strategy. I call it ‘strategic detachment.’ This is not the withdrawal from…

— Nathaniel Branden

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

— Margaret Fuller

“The kid, whose existence became a hallucination at seven, and a catastrophe at fourteen, and a disaster after that, whose vocation is to be…

— Philip Roth

“The greatest damage done by neglect, trauma or emotional loss is not the immediate pain they inflict but the long-term distortions they induce in…

— Gabor Maté

“The child brings with him into the world, not character, but disposition. He has tendencies which may need only to be strengthened, or, again,…

— Charlotte Mason

“The child identifies with the parent who has been betrayed because he is suffering immeasurable loss as well—the loss of trust in one or…

— Ana Nogales

The children's writer not only makes a satisfactory connection between [the writer's] present maturity and his past childhood, he also does the same for…

— Philippa Pearce

“By reversing roles with her son, a mother communicates to him that he is supposed to comfort, protect, and take care of her. She…

— Susan Forward