Gordon Neufeld Quotes

#1. Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children.

Gordon Neufeld

#2. Children need to trust and depend upon those who are responsible for them.

Gordon Neufeld

#3. I started my career in parent education with the idea that we needed to let our kids go. I believed that parents were suffocating for their children. There was no room for individuality and personhood.

Gordon Neufeld

#4. We have lost sight of nature's role in the whole process of maturation and growing up. Parents and nature are a team. And nature can't go on without the parental role of being able to foster individuality and viability unless the attachment needs are fully met.

Gordon Neufeld

#5. Children learn best when they like their teacher and they think their teacher likes them.

Gordon Neufeld

#6. It is a parent's responsibility to preserve the connection with their children, to preserve the relationship, so that the children can let go and become their own selves.

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#7. Children do not experience our intentions, no matter how heartfelt. They experience what we manifest in tone and behavior.

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#8. Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn't parenting. Parenting is not telling your child what to do when he or she misbehaves. Parenting is providing the conditions in which a child can realize his or her full human potential.

Gordon Neufeld