Children Quote by Mikael Krogerus

“One effect of peer orientation is that the love and nurturance we have for our children cannot get through.”

— Gabor Maté

“When a child becomes so attached to her peers that she would rather be with them and be like them, those peers, whether singly…

— Gabor Maté

“The critical issue was that she was peer dependent, which, given her psychological immaturity, delivered a devastating blow to parenting.”

— Gordon Neufeld

“A child is like a relationship. You can only shape it as it's growing, or it becomes a menace if let to grow without…

— Andew-Knox B Kaniki

“Freud focused on the puzzling development of conscience. He reasoned that the child begins life with a sense that all are present to serve…

— Bandy X Lee

“Peer-oriented kids are repelled by similarity to their parents and want to be as different as possible from them. Since sameness means closeness, pursuing…

— Gabor Maté

“Freud found that the most central childhood problems regularly surface not in discussion but in disguised form in the analytic relationship. It”

— Stephen A. Mitchell

“It turns out that to be a different kind of parent, you don’t just need a different parenting philosophy. You need a very different…

— Pamela Druckerman

“Instead of promoting healthy development, they unconsciously undermine it, often with the belief that they are acting in their child’s best interest.”

— Susan Forward

“Your child acts this way because she doesn’t know how else to handle her difficult thoughts and feelings.”

— Jeffrey Bernstein

“In short, we live with an overriding sense that we have ultimate control over who our kids become when they are adults. We therefore…

— Meg Meeker

“nature or nurture' said the professor. 'Whichever way the parents are to blame”

— Francois Lelord