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“If a child stays quiet in the context of extroverted friends, or even prefers time alone, a parent may worry and even send her…

— Laurie Helgoe

“You can also teach your child simple social strategies to get him through uncomfortable moments. Encourage him to look confident even if he’s not…

— Susan Cain

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive…

— Tryon Edwards

“ Social Skills Training Social skills training is based on the belief that socially anxious people lack certain social skills, such as how to…

— Heather Moehn

“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

Having kids is the deal-breaker on shyness! Once you have a baby, you learn to speak up loud and clear to protect them, defend…

— Lori Foster

Anxiety in the parent creates anxiety in the kid.

— Steven Rinella

The next thing is by gentle degrees to accustom children to those things they are too much afraid of. But here great caution is…

— John Locke

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

I was a chronically shy child. That kernel of my younger self is still there, but I've developed mechanisms to deal with it.

— Richard Eyre

I was always shy. Writing was my only outlet. Because I always hid in a room, I spent a lot of time watching people.…

— Jenny Lawson