Action Quote by Martha Stout

Baby girls, as young as 12 months old, respond more empathically to the distress of other people, showing greater concern through more sad looks,…

— Simon Baron-Cohen

“We do our sulking lovers the greatest possible favor when we are able to regard their tantrums as we would those of an infant.…

— Alain de Botton

A lot of the times, what girls go through when they're growing up gets minimized. 'Mean Girls' marked the first time I saw teenage…

— Barrett Wilbert Weed

“We build emotional literacy, first, by being able to identify and name our emotions; second, by recognizing the emotional content of voice and facial…

— Dan Kindlon

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.

— Anonymous

“Remember, there’s a huge difference between angry feelings and angry actions. Yes, you have to discourage misbehavior, but it’s superimportant that your child know…

— Harvey Karp

“A part of a healthy conscience is being able to confront consciencelessness. When you teach your daughter, explicitly or by passive rejection, that she…

— Martha Stout

“Parents of spirited children who are learning to manage their intensity well are talking about intensity and naming the emotions. They soothe the wailing…

— Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

“When you teach your daughter, explicitly or by passive rejection, that she must ignore her outrage, that she must be kind and accepting to…

— Martha Stout

“Boys are encouraged to siphon off a great deal of aggression and anger through contact sports, fighting, and overt competitiveness, but girls are given…

— Susan Forward

“Many daughters live out their lives avoiding or abiding or arguing with their mothers-burying the long-ago injury or insult or childhood deprivation under a…

— Victoria Secunda

Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing…

— Jack Canfield