Developmental-psychology Quote by Lisa Firestone

“Everyone is supposed to be a combination of nature and nurture, their true selves shaped by years of friends and fights and parents and…

— Melissa Albert

“Only when we acknowledge ourselves as we really are can we begin to take inventory of the physical, mental, and emotional clutter that no…

— Sadiqua Hamdan

“My parents are humans too. This has been one of my greatest awakenings in adulthood: my parents being regular people, too. They have baggage…

— Natalie Brenner

“As our kids get older and become adults themselves, there’s a stage we unknowingly pass, from which point forward our role as parents diminishes…

— K.L. Slater

“Parents, after all, are judged by their children’s accomplishments rather than their happiness, so when our children fail, we appropriate those failures as our…

— Jessica Lahey

“The words spoken over our lives from childhood manifest into the adults we become”

— Vese Aghoghovbia Aladewolu

“Each one of us has hated his or her parents at some point in early life … how quickly we turn around our feelings…

— Sandeep Sahajpal

“We parents are in the process of losing parts of ourselves, of waking up each morning to find ourselves changed by our children. We…

— Daniel Gottlieb

“When we are children our families take care of our basic survival needs; they are also our first and most important sources of information…

— Susan Forward

“A childish feeling, I admit, but, when we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each…

— Mikhail Lermontov

“For better or worse, we are all shaped by our parents.”

— Ruskin Bond

“As children, the events that negatively impacted our emotions, we recall and reject as adults. The incidents that positively affected us, we attempt to…

— Richard Cezar