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Quotation by Joan Sheingold Ditzion
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Ourselves and Our Children, by Boston Women's Health Book Collective (1978)Ourselves and Our Children by Boston Women's Health Book Collective (1978)Related Subjects
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We have been told over and over about the importance of bonding to our children. Rarely do we hear about the skill of letting go, or, as one parent said, "that we raise our children to leave us." Early childhood, as our kids gain skills and eagerly want some distance from us, is a time to build a kind of adult-child balance which permits both of us room.
Joan Sheingold Ditzion (20th century), U.S. parent educator, and Dennie Palmer Wolf. Ourselves and Our Children by Boston Women's Health Book Collective, ch. 2 (1978).
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