Children Quote by Gordon Neufeld

“Frustrations are an inevitable part of life, and learning to deal with them in manageable doses helps us to develop a solid sense of…

— Susan Forward

“When we feel frustrated, our first inclination is to change whatever isn't working for us. We can try to accomplish this by making demands…

— Gabor Maté

“They are not born reasonable and unselfish; they are born unreasonable and selfish. They want what they want when they want it, and they…

— Thomas W. Phelan

“When a child isn't allowed to deal with his frustrations on his own—to cry, for instance, then to handle the situation, and then to…

— Susan Forward

“Unless there was an open heart, and caring hands, and listening ears, the children will not be able to correct their steps alone, or…

— Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

“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

“It is a central paradox of contemporary parenting, in fact: we have an acute, almost biological impulse to provide for our children, to give…

— Paul Tough

The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.

— Kate Thompson

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

— Jane Smiley

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

Also, perhaps children are sterner than grown-up people in their refusal to suffer, in their refusal, even, to feel at all.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“Even before i had children, I knew that being a parent was going to be challenging as well as rewarding. But I didn't really…

— Alfie Kohn