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Quotation by Stella Chess
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As quoted in The Difficult Child by Stanley Turecki, (1985)Daughters (1978)DaughtersRelated Subjects
growing up female (6) adolescent and adult relationships, general (6) parents on living with teenagers (6) adolescent development of girls, influence of pare (5) adolescent development in girls (4) adolescents' friendships and peer groups (4) the changing child (2) parenting across the years (2) advice to parents (2) teenagers (2)
Young people of high school age can actually feel themselves changing. Progress is almost tangible. It's exciting. It stimulates more progress. Nevertheless, growth is not constant and smooth. Erik Erikson quotes an aphorism to describe the formless forming of it. "I ain't what I ought to be. I ain't what I'm going to be, but I'm not what I was."
Stella Chess (20th century), U.S. psychiatrist, and Jane Whitbread (20th century), U.S. writer. Daughters, ch. 7 (1978).
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