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The affection of parents makes infants feel safe in this dangerous world, and gives them boldness in experimentation and in exploration of their envir...more

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A child develops best when, like a young plant, he is left undisturbed in the same soil. Too much travel, too much variety of impressions, are not goo...more

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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

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When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them can...more

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All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to...more

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The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

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It is not difficult for an unwise mother quite unintentionally to centre the heterosexual feelings of a young son upon herself, and it is true that, i...more

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If children learn of sex as a relation between their parents to which they owe their own existence, they learn of it in its best form and in connectio...more

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When a child reaches adolescence, there is very apt to be a conflict between parents and child, since the latter considers himself to be by now quite ...more

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Both men and women who have children as a rule regulate their lives largely with reference to them, and children cause perfectly ordinary men and wome...more

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The heterosexual emotions of young children can find a natural, wholesome and innocent outlet with other children; in this form they are a part of pla...more