Childhood Psychology Quotes

#1. How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that some differences between the sexes just are, that they are in the nature of the beasts, because each sex has an evolved tendency to develop that way in response to experience.

Matt Ridley

#2. Resiliency is not gender-, age-, or intellectually specific ...

Asa Don Brown

#3. Childhood trauma does not come in one single package.

Asa Don Brown

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

Asa Don Brown

#5. I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.

Stefan Molyneux

#6. There's no weakness as great as false strength.

Stefan Molyneux

#7. Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy.

John Irving

#8. If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.

Stefan Molyneux

#9. Survivors of trauma may have difficulty initiating relationships ...

Asa Don Brown

#10. Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.
Aristotle

Bruce Wayne Sullivan

#11. Marginalised and abused children are often overlooked even today, and risk becoming marginalised and abused adults who may never receive acknowledgment or respect for the immense physical and emotional burden they carry from childhood or indeed have their full potential realised.

Jane Hersey

#12. What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves
our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies.

Margaret Atwood

#13. Do Not Dictate a Child through Someone, it Ruins the Child's Experience.

Vineet Raj Kapoor

#14. 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.

Nathaniel Branden

#15. We already live on the planet of war, we already live on the red planet, and it's a war against children. All the other wars are just the shadows of the war on children.

Stefan Molyneux

#16. Fairytales are healthy for the children. As they grow up, the magical thinking wears off, but the fairytale-induced creative brain circuits stay forever.

Abhijit Naskar

#17. 'Marnie' was ahead of its time. People didn't talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss sexuality and psychology and to put all that into a film was shocking.

Tippi Hedren

#18. If you want to breed something, breed bravehearts, not soulless racehorses.

Abhijit Naskar

#19. There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.

Stefan Molyneux

#20. Let's train ourselves to not hate each other. We all come from the same consciousness in the mind.

Allan Wesler

#21. 'Not spoiling' a child means trying to break that child's spirit.

Dorothy Rowe

#22. One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.

Stefan Molyneux

#23. When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.

John Berger

#24. Anger is the immune system of the soul.

Stefan Molyneux

#25. I am seriously interested in the psychology of childhood. And I've given a lot of my life to trying to see questions of personal development, as well as the great issues of the day, from a child's point of view.

Kevin Crossley-Holland

#26. Trauma may be endured through a physiological or psychological threat to life or overall wellbeing.

Asa Don Brown

#27. Trauma does not have to occur by abuse alone...

Asa Don Brown

#28. I still think that, in a way, I can't get past half my childhood dogmas.

J.D. Salinger

#29. How we perceive, feel about and respond to people and situations is far more guided by the lessons of early childhood than we would like to believe. We may be adults, chronologically and physically, but too often the youngest parts of our personality are invisibly, yet actively, living our lives.

Charlette Mikulka

#30. Perception and worldview are one's summary of life.

Asa Don Brown

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

Asa Don Brown

#32. A well-known psychologist once said, 'When a child reaches his third birthday, his parents will have given him half of all that they will ever be able to give him in the way of education.

Corrie Ten Boom

#33. A secure attachment is the ability to bond; to develop a secure and safe base ...

Asa Don Brown

#34. Abuse may consist of physical maltreatment or language that is belittling, discriminatory ...

Asa Don Brown

#35. Resiliency is the essence of a global positive framework ...

Asa Don Brown

#36. There is no debating that the effects of trauma experienced in childhood may have grave consequences.

Asa Don Brown

#37. Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.

Stefan Molyneux

#38. The world is full of terrible suffering, compared to which the small inconveniences of my childhood are as a drop of rain in the sea.

Richard Rhodes

#39. 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.

C. G. Jung

#40. Modern humans are taught from the childhood that they are weak and sinners. Teach them that they are embodiment of glory and children of immortal strength. Eventually a society full of bravehearts will rise.

Abhijit Naskar

#41. My traumatic experience was life changing

Asa Don Brown

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

Joyce Rachelle

#43. The zeal of kids is to explore! Until you know how to sustain the real interest of your child, the real interest of your child shall be sustained by something else!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#44. What I remember the most about my childhood is constant fear and "good food." I don't want to get into the greasy, buttery, deep-fried, fatty, sugary, meaty, barbecued details here, but with no knowledge of healthy lifestyles or positive psychology, time took its toll on me.

Bryant H. McGill