Child Attachment Quotes

#1. My mother didn't find motherhood easy. I've heard her saying that. She didn't breastfeed me. I woke up when I was breastfeeding my own child thinking, 'How can a woman feel an attachment to a child without breast-feeding?'

Jade Jagger

#2. Black is the color

Alexandra Bracken

#3. His eyes shifted out the window. The breeze whipped by, blowing a food wrapper across the lawn outside the window. That wrapper had the right idea. Float, run, get away from the school.

Patrick Reuman

#4. In the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child, without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#5. A child's attachment process begins within the first year of life ...

Asa Don Brown

#6. The capacity for dissociation enables the young child to exercise their innate life-sustaining need for attachment in spite of the fact that principal attachment figures are also principal abusers.

Warwick Middleton

#7. As a group, attachment-challenged children need to be looked at differently. This is a group of children who have experiences and fears of being separated from parent figures. Until they can rebuild some of their emotional security, their time in child-care must be restricted.

Deborah D. Gray

#8. All over now. He is either in joy or nothingness.
(So why grieve?
The worst of it, for him, is over.)
Because I loved him so and am in the habit of loving him and that love must take the form of fussing and worry and doing.

George Saunders

#9. Being properly prepared is one of the biggest assets in business and in athletic competition.

Keeth Smart

#10. It is regarded as axiomatic that parents have more power then children. This is an inescapable biological fact; young children are completely dependent on their parents or other caring adults for survival.

Judith Lewis Herman

#11. THINGS THAT AREN'T TRUE. HOW ELSE CAN THEY

Terry Pratchett

#12. Throughout history, the most brutal cultures have always been distinguished by maternal-infant separation.

Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#13. As a child, I was very careful not to erase my mother's writing on the chalkboard because I would miss her.

Joyce Rachelle

#14. See! This our fathers did for us.

John Ruskin

#15. Attachment is misery, but from the very beginning the child is taught for attachment. The mother will say to the child, "Love me; I am your mother." The father will say, "Love me; I am your father" - as if someone is a father or a mother so he becomes automatically lovable.

Rajneesh

#16. The idea of the universe as an interconnected whole is not new; for millennia it's been one of the core assumptions of Eastern philosophies. What is new is that Western science is slowly beginning to realize that some elements of that ancient lore might be correct.

Dean Radin

#17. Why is it braver to be a single mother versus being with a partner? Being in a couple and having a child could be more challenging because there might be conflict if the male partner cannot understand the extreme attachment a woman feels when she has a child.

Monica Cruz

#18. Attachments that are not fostered may lend to the child's inability to properly attach or have no attachment at all.

Asa Don Brown

#19. If the mother can't break the attachment, they say that the baby can't leave this world. For him to be happy in a good place you must send the child that you must send ... and you must live.

Park Gye-Ok

#20. What cannot be communicated to the [m]other cannot be communicated to the self.

John Bowlby

#21. The best predictor of a child's security of attachment is not what happened to his parents as children, but rather how his parents made sense of those childhood experiences.

Daniel J. Siegel

#22. When I was in high school, girls made fun of me for liking vampire movies. Now, I'd be their king. Time machine, where are you?

Dana Gould

#23. Maternal/child attachment is mostly eroded in increments. The separation begins in hospitals, where mothers are not only made to feel inferior to medical professionals in relation
to their infants, but regularly separated from their infants.

Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#24. In the early days of my child labor activities I was an investigator with a camera attachment ... but the emphasis became reversed until the camera stole the whole show.

Lewis Hine

#25. Soul development depends on attachment and bonding. Every brain and body is genetically wired to develop itself, but the full soul development of brain and body depends on each child receiving the care of between two and five completely bonded caregivers.

Michael Gurian

#26. Secure attachment has been linked to a child's ability to successfully recover and prove resilient in the presence of a traumatic event.

Asa Don Brown

#27. It was two years ago that I first met Yuki. I remember that painfully thin figure covered in dirt: malnourished, exhausted and carrying a sleeping child in his arms like it's the most precious thing in the world.

Kyuugou

#28. Traumatic experiences in early childhood may interfere with the child's ability to securely attach.

Asa Don Brown