Anxiety Quote by Maurice Sendak

“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

Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to…

— John Locke

When we protect children from every possible source of danger, we also prevent them from having the kinds of experiences that develop their sense…

— Gever Tulley

Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

— Hector Hugh Munro

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

We're so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we're inadvertently excusing them from growing up.

— LZ Granderson

“we’re wired for story and in the absence of data we will rely on confabulations and conspiracies. When our children sense something is wrong—maybe…

— Brené Brown

We cannot protect our children from life. Therefore, it is essential to prepare them for it. Feeling sorry for children is one of the…

— Rudolf Dreikurs

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

— Maurice Sendak

We cannot protect our children from life. Therefore, it is essential that we prepare them for it.

— Rudolf Dreikurs

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very…

— June Jordan

Even when we do not create children's fears, when they come to us with fears ready-made and built-in, we use their fears as handles…

— John W Holt Jr