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Quotation by Stella Chess
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Stella Chess (26)Additional Sources
As quoted in The Difficult Child by Stanley Turecki, (1985)Daughters (1978)DaughtersRelated Subjects
non (sexist childrearing) self (esteem) adolescence (6) femininity/the female experience (6) preteens/preteen development (3) adolescent development of girls, influence of pare (3) adolescent development in boys (2) children in the middle years (1) adolescents' friendships and peer groups (1) children's friendships and peer groups (1)
While girls [age 9–12] appear to have much more social know-how, they are characteristically cliquey, disloyal, cruel, insecure, and a bit bitchy now. Today's best friend becomes tomorrow's discard. Parents watch in horror at what seem to be total personality changes in previously lovely, upright little girls. Sometimes girls are just as unsettled by their behavior as the disapproving elders who watch them. Sometimes they are unregenerate, relishing their freewheeling and dealing.
Stella Chess (20th century), U.S. psychiatrist, and Jane Whitbread (20th century), U.S. writer. Daughters, ch. 6 (1978).
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