Top 69 Quotes About Child Psychology
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. If I wasn't doing modeling, I'd like to study child psychology.
Shanina Shaik
#4. Child psychology and child psychiatry cannot be reformed. They must be abolished.
Thomas Szasz
#5. 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
#6. In 2002, my husband died very suddenly. My main concern that day was how to deliver the news to our daughter, then eight. Someone put me in touch with Judith Wallerstein, an expert in child psychology who coached me through what to say.
Katie Hafner
#7. 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
#8. As a child, I was very careful not to erase my mother's writing on the chalkboard because I would miss her.
Joyce Rachelle
#9. People tend to raise the child inside of them rather than the child in front of them.
Joe Newman
#10. Untraumatized people have a natural instinct to make healthy decisions in the best interest of their true selves. They are only limited by their immaturity and the brokenness of their external world.
Daniel Mackler
#11. If you want kids, choose your girlfriend like your future child has the deciding vote.
Stefan Molyneux
#12. The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.
Stefan Molyneux
#13. Few endeavors, if any at all, I find to be inherently mature or inherently immature. Maturity is neither defined by one's particular preferences nor by one's particular activities; rather, it is defined by the strength of one's character.
Criss Jami
#14. Attachments that are not fostered may lend to the child's inability to properly attach or have no attachment at all.
Asa Don Brown
#15. When a child is forced to prove himself as capable, results are often disastrous. A child needs love, acceptance, and understanding. He is devastated when confronted with rejection, doubts, and never ending testing.
Virginia Mae Axline
#17. Childhood trauma does not come in one single package.
Asa Don Brown
#18. I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.
Albert Ellis
#19. A child comes from God, a child
is a gift from God, but a child is
not our possession.
Give the child unconditional love
and freedom. Respect the child, the child has its own soul. The child has its own way.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#20. These are our neighbours, our co-workers, friends' children ... the problem is closer than you think, but so is the solution.
Phillip C. McGraw
#21. 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
#22. After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.
Dorothy Rowe
#23. Any child who can spend an hour or two a day, or more if he wants, with adults that he likes, who are interested in the world and like to talk about it, will on most days learn far more from their talk than he would learn in a week of school.
John Holt
#25. I was in an adolescent psychology class at Citadel when the guy said, if you had a mother who was beaten, there's a great chance you'll beat your wife. And if you were beaten as a child, there's a terrific chance you're going to be a child-beater.
Terry Gross
#26. Do Not Dictate a Child through Someone, it Ruins the Child's Experience.
Vineet Raj Kapoor
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil.
Stefan Molyneux
#31. If you want to breed something, breed bravehearts, not soulless racehorses.
Abhijit Naskar
#32. Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are.
Stefan Molyneux
#33. There is no greater grief, than when a parent losses a child.
Asa Don Brown
#34. Only later, much later, too late, did I understand how small she (Mrs Winterson) was to herself. The baby nobody picked up. The uncarried child still inside her.
Jeanette Winterson
#36. 'Not spoiling' a child means trying to break that child's spirit.
Dorothy Rowe
#37. One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.
Stefan Molyneux
#38. I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships.
Jodie Foster
#39. 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
#40. I explain to my patients that abused children often find it hard to disentangle themselves from their dysfunctional families, whereas children grow away from good, loving parents with far less conflict. After all, isn't that the task of a good parent, to enable the child to leave home?
Irvin D. Yalom
#41. We are creatures built on a house of cards of language.
Stefan Molyneux
#42. One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it.
Margaret Mead
#43. This is my life's work. It is a user's manual to the human being, a parenting book ... and how to be the best you can be.
Faye Snyder
#44. And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never ... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.
Zoe Kazan
#45. A human being born into a cold, indifferent world will regard his situation as the only possible one.
Alice Miller
#46. All we think about in the cycle of violence is men.
If we miss the oestrogen factor we cannot solve the cycle of violence. We cannot bring peace to the world unless we hold women accountable and morally responsible, particularly for their attacks upon children.
Stefan Molyneux
#47. A child's attachment process begins within the first year of life ...
Asa Don Brown
#48. 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
#49. Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.
Stefan Molyneux
#50. How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child? We can replace the narratives that hold us back by inventing wiser stories, free from childish fears, and, in doing so, disperse long-held psychological stumbling blocks.
Benjamin Zander
#51. The ruling classes use broken and smashed up childhoods as weaponised instruments of domination around the world. This is why the government has no incentive to end child abuse; because the government needs abuse victims as enforcers.
Stefan Molyneux
#52. The child psychologist's clinic: where imaginary friends go to die, where dreams go to burn, where creativity goes to drown.
Rebecca McNutt
#54. As an individual, you are entitled to your time of grief, process of grief, and right to grieve.
Asa Don Brown
#55. Cruelty is the opposite of love, and its traumatic effect, far from being reduced, is actually reinforced if it is presented as a sign of love.
Alice Miller
#56. The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality
Robert W. Firestone
#57. We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.
Stefan Molyneux
#58. 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
#59. Every patient clings to fantasies in which he sees himself in the active role so as to escape the pain of being defenseless and helpless. To achieve this he will accept guilt feelings, although they bind him to neurosis.
Alice Miller
#60. The loss of a child exploits the emotions of each individual it encounters.
Asa Don Brown
#61. Loss has no friend, no allies, no benefit to the human spirit.
Asa Don Brown
#62. 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
#63. 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
#65. Not to take one's own suffering seriously, to make light of it or even to laugh at it, is considered good manners in our culture.
Alice Miller
#66. [Fantasy] is a constructive aspect of the child's experimental exploration of reality, or his progressive relating of himself to reality, of his trial-and-error attempts to solve his reality problems.
Lauretta Bender
#67. I majored in Psychology in college. I was going to be a child psychologist.
Gloria Estefan
#68. Once a baby is born, the parents have around one and a half decades to build his or her character and fill the mind with vigour and virtues.
Abhijit Naskar
#69. Most people in the psychology field believe that if we do not get a child to bond at a deep level with someone by age eight, we have lost them. We can never recover them and teach them empathy. Never.
Patti Henry
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