With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young chil...dren to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In all cases, excepting those of the bear and leopard, the female is less spirited than the male; in regard to the two exceptional... cases, the superiority in courage rests with the female. With all other animals the female is softer in disposition than the male, is more mischievous, less simple, more impulsive, and more attentive to the nurture of the young; the male, on the other hand, is more spirited than the female, more savage, more simple and less cunning. The traces of these differentiated characteristics are more or less visible everywhere, but they are especially visible where character is the more developed, and most of all in man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Preschool children are more sophisticated than toddlers.... Your goal as a parent is to nurture the child's desire to be a self-st...arter and help him begin to adopt some of your attitudes and values, but without humiliating the child or suppressing his newfound assertivenessLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bo...dies for solace?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. N...o government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just as we are learning to value and conserve the air we breathe, the water we drink, the energy we use, we must learn to value an...d conserve our capacity for nurture. Otherwise, in the name of human potential we will slowly but surely erode the source of our humanity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As long as fathers rule but do not nurture, as long as mothers nurture but do not rule, the conditions favoring the development of... father-daughter incest will prevail.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We need to nurture uniqueness and independence.... Ours must be schools for ego- strength--the child's ego, not the teacher's. "Yo...u can do it!" has to be the teacher's consistent, over-and-over steady slogan: "You can hang up your own coat...." "You can pour your own juice...." "You can climb to the top...." "You can figure it out." We have no stake in schools where children learn to color within the lines. No stake in pushing for unnecessary conformity, no stake in children submerging themselves in the group, no stake in everlasting lessons in obediently following the directions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is growing consensus that new parents need help--information, advice, practical assistance--and that infants and toddlers ne...ed stimulation as well as care and nurture.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »