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In some ways being a parent is like being an anthropologist who is studying a primitive and isolated tribe by living with them....... - MORE In some ways being a parent is like being an anthropologist who is studying a primitive and isolated tribe by living with them.... To understand the beauty of child development, we must shed some of our socialization as adults and learn how to communicate with children on their own terms, just as an anthropologist must learn how to communicate with that primitive tribe.

Lawrence Kutner

child development, parents' understanding of | parents | communication

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Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on t... - MORE Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on the attributes and characteristics of mothers and teachers and gives them the ultimate responsibility for the child's life chances.

Sara Lawrence Lightfoot

mothers/mothers' roles | parents | education

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The family is both the fundamental unit of society as well as the root of culture. It represents a child's initial source of uncon... - MORE The family is both the fundamental unit of society as well as the root of culture. It represents a child's initial source of unconditional love and acceptance and provides lifelong connectedness with others. The family is the first setting in which socialization takes place and where children learn to live with mutual respect for one another. A family is where a child learns to display affection, control his temper, and pick up his toys. Finally, a family is a perpetual source of encouragement, advocacy, assurance, and emotional refueling that empowers a child to venture with confidence into the greater world and to become all that he can be.

Marianne E. Neifert

families, the role of families in development

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...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The a... - MORE ...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.

Dorothy Allison

academia | literature | truth

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