If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent
I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my parents and grandparents and more distant ancestors. It often seems as if there were an impersonal karma within a family which is passed on from parents to children. It has always seemed to me that I had to answer questions which fate had posed to my forefathers, and which had not yet been answered, or as if I had to complete, or perhaps continue, things which previous ages had left unfinished.
What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived
The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.
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