Child Psychology Quotes

• Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

  James A. Baldwin

  Family, Education, Wisdom

  Nobody Knows My Name (1961) "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a letter from Harlem"

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• There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding.

  Erik Erikson

  Children, Miracle, Psychology

  Erik H. Erikson (1993). “Childhood and Society”, p.255, W. W. Norton & Company

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• As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Children, Childhood

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• Child psychology and child psychiatry cannot be reformed. They must be abolished.

  Thomas Szasz

  Children, Psychology, Psychiatry

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• Too-broad questions, such as, "What's on your mind?" are apt to be answered "nothing" nearly one hundred percent of the time. Be careful of slipping into ""psycho-speak," however. Kids pick up instantly your attempt at being a pseudo-shrink. Most resent it and are apt to tune out anything that sounds like you're reading a script from the latest child-psychology text.

  Marge M. Kennedy

  Children, Reading, Kids

  Marge M. Kennedy (1994). “The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World”, Three Rivers Press (CA)

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• I was a physical education major with a child psychology minor at Temple, which means if you ask me a question about a child's behavior, I will advise you to tell the child to take a lap.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Mean, Psychology

  Bill Cosby (2002). “Bill Cosby on Fatherhood”, p.18, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Children, Animal, Psychology

  "Principles of Physiological Psychology".

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• If I wasn't doing modeling, I'd like to study child psychology.

  Shanina Shaik

  Children, Psychology, Study

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• I want to get back to education. When I was in college I paid attention to child psychology portions of our psychology classes. I watch other people work with babies. And I saw the baby as developing like a computer and it intrigued me in my life. I wanted to do that.

  Steve Wozniak

  Baby, Children, College

  Source: www.npr.org

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