Anxiety Quote by Judith Warner

Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with…

— Sigmund Freud

Children who are not encouraged to do, to try, to explore, to master, and to risk failure, often feel helpless and inadequate. Over-controlled by…

— Susan Forward

The fears and anxieties and obsessions wrapped up in being a parent.

— Vera Farmiga

“Children do not dwell on the ordinary harshness of life, even as they suffer through it.”

— Vahan Zanoyan

. . .from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday…

— Maurice Sendak

“Research shows, however, that anxiety is linked to some aspects of perfectionism but not others. Specifically, while anxious people are concerned about mistakes and…

— Andrea Petersen

“Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to…

— Maurice Sendak

“Too many of us now allow ourselves to be defined by motherhood and direct every ounce of our energy into our children. This sounds…

— Judith Warner

“some of the brightest kids prove to be the most vulnerable to becoming helpless, because they feel the need to live up to and…

— Josh Waitzkin

“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

“We start off in childhood believing parents might have access to a superior kind of knowledge and experience. They look, for a while, astonishingly…

— Alain de Botton

“Children enter the world with a great deal of love and trust. They are not yet able to perceive good and bad, but they…

— Rahima Baldwin Dancy