"Every child needs at least one adult who……" — Urie Bronfenbrenner
"Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her."
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14 Quotes by Urie Bronfenbrenner
Urie Bronfenbrenner has 14 quotes on this site.
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Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know…
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The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces as the behavior it…
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In order to develop normally, a child requires progressively more complex joint activity with one or more adults who have…
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In the United States, it is now possible for a person eighteen years of age, female as well as male,…
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One of the most significant effects of age-segregation in our society has been the isolation of children from the world…
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Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children with persons…
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There is no more critical indicator of the future of a society than the character, competence, and integrity of its youth.
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Children need people in order to become human.... It is primarily through observing, playing, and working with others older and…
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In the planning and designing of new communities, housing projects, and urban renewal, the planners both private and public, need…
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Like the sorcerer of old, the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action, turning the living into…
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No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations and skills involved in assisting and…
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Development, it turns out, occurs through this process of progressively more complex exchange between a child and somebody else- especially…
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
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I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I…
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I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard…
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When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably…
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If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids…
— Mario Batali
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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the…
— Jean Baudrillard
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
— Martha Beck
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Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
— Martha Beck
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Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise…
— Martha Beck
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An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
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