Bread and butter Quote by Sylvia Plath

“All infants and children require and deserve comfort in order to develop properly. Soft cooing voices, gentle touch, smiles, cleanliness, and wholesome food all…

— Alexandra Katehakis

“hard-wired to seek love, joy, fulfillment—and health. Though we’ve too often been talked out of our desires as children,”

— Christiane Northrup

The child begins life as a pleasure-seeking animal; his infantile personality is organized around his own appetites and his own body. In the course…

— Selma Fraiberg

“…hearts wrung with anguish, the anguish of having children, a vulnerability as astonishing as the capacity for love that parenthood brings.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“has given it life? Why do you allow some of the earliest images to which your child is exposed to be images of violence?…

— Neale Donald Walsch

To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or…

— Samuel Johnson

“the fabric of family, the limits of love, the loss of innocence and the birth of knowledge.”

— Betty Smith

All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection

— Alice Miller

“my children to enjoy life, to value themselves, to be risk takers, to become self-reliant, to be free from stress and anxiety, to have…

— Wayne W. Dyer

“He liked to feel the soft little hand clasping his own fingers, so big and coarse in comparison, and happily so strong. For in…

— George Gissing

“Children lose their innocence piece by piece. The layers are carved away until our hearts have been exposed and polished into an unnatural gloss.…

— Deborah Smith

“Do not say only to what a child can feel, for do you not recall how powerfully you experienced emotion as a child?"..."We do…

— Isobelle Carmody