Nathaniel Branden Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.

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  Strong, Children, Self

• Be careful what you say to your children. They may agree with you.

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  Children, May, Be Careful

  Nathaniel Branden (2011). “Honoring the Self: The Pyschology of Confidence and Respect”, p.28, Bantam

• For children mastery entails struggle. This means they must be permitted to struggle. If parents inappropriately step in to "help"-out of impatience or solicitude-they sabotage important learning. Among other things, the child is unlikely to discover the advantages of perseverance and self-discipline.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Perseverance, Children, Struggle

• The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary business is learning. It is also the primary entertainment. To retain that orientation into adulthood, so that consciousness is not a burden but a joy, is the mark of the successfully developed human being.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Children, Joy, Mind

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