Michele Pasin / Quotes

Attachment: a safe base for exploring

This engaging of adults is part of what we call attachment. It is a special bond between babies and the significant adults in their lives. When a securely…

Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney) #attachment #babies #curiosity #parents

Holding and responding build trust

Erikson believed that two actions on the part of parents and teachers help babies develop this basic sense of trust: holding babies close and having warm…

Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney) #attachment #babies #teaching #parents

Learning to cope in small doses

Current studies (Young-Eisendrath 2008) as well as Montessori’s original work on developing independence and Magda Gerber’s 1997 (among her other) work on…

Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney) #babies #autonomy #parents #teaching

Responsiveness is the opposite of spoiling

Erikson’s theory says that babies will develop the strongest sense of security if they know that adults will come running when they cry. Then, when they are a…

Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney) #attachment #babies #autonomy #parents

A dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet

In my room, I lay down to sleep. The move to the slum would give me time: it was a hard solution to the visa problem, but a practical one. I felt relieved and…

Shantaram (gregory David Roberts) #sleep #dreams #room #slums #night

Ethic is not unegoistic

Ethic as Man's Self-Analysis.—A good author, whose heart is really in his work, wishes that someone would arise and wholly refute him if only thereby his…

Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits #men #phrases #sleep