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Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those pures...

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Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them in fact the family...

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Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triump...

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The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new ...

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Genius as such can neither be explained nor treated away only at times its delay and inhibition a...

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It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — ...

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When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we l...

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Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

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Erik Erikson

Psychologist

Born: 1902-06-15

Died: 1994-05-12

Erik Homburger Erikson (15 June 1902 – 12 May 1994) was a Danish-German-American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on social development of human beings, and for coining the phrase identity crisis.More