Adults Quote by Jean Liedloff

This, at last, was where things were as they ought to be. Everything was in its place -- the tree, the earth underneath, the…

— Jean Liedloff

Happiness ceases to be a normal condition of being alive, and becomes a goal.

— Jean Liedloff

I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of raising children…

— Jean Liedloff

We take it for granted that life is hard and feel lucky to have whatever happiness we get. We do not look upon happiness…

— Jean Liedloff

The broader unquestioned premises upon which my own culture founded its view of the human condition, such as the one that Unhappiness is as…

— Jean Liedloff

It is our genetic nature as a species to believe as young children that our parents and elders are right. We watch them to…

— Jean Liedloff

Children need to see that they are assumed to be well-intentioned, naturally social people who are trying to do the right thing and who…

— Jean Liedloff

Our parents, our tribesman, our authority figures, clearly expect us to be bad or anti-social or greedy or selfish or dirty or destructive or…

— Jean Liedloff

I knew, even at eight, that the confusion of values thrust upon me by parents, teachers, other children, nannies, camp counselors, and others would…

— Jean Liedloff

It's perfectly clear that the millions of babies, who are crying at this very moment, want unanimously to be next to a live body.…

— Jean Liedloff

As a child I was attracted to Tarzan and everything that had to do with jungles. It seemed to me -- and this is…

— Jean Liedloff

A baby's cry is precisely as serious as it sounds.

— Jean Liedloff