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#maturity
Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina)
Children create grown-ups
You may think that grown-ups create children. The reality is that children create grown-ups. They become their own person, and so do you. Children give so much more than they take.
Durante (Andrea De Carlo)
Se essere maturi significa avere paura
“Ti comporti come una bambina!” ha detto Astrid. “Altro che matura!” “Preferisco essere una bambina, allora!” ha detto Ingrid, con altrettanta intensità. “Se essere maturi vuol dire diventare come voi! Chiusi fuori dal mondo, angosciati dal mutuo da pagare e dall’ansia di…
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
Free spirits have contempt for that which is called their "duty"
It may be conjectured that a soul in which the type of "free spirit" can attain maturity and completeness had its decisive and deciding event in the form of a great emancipation or unbinding, and that prior to that event it seemed only the more firmly and forever chained to its…
That character is unalterable is not, in the strict sense, true
Unalterable Character.—That character is unalterable is not, in the strict sense, true; rather is this favorite proposition valid only to the extent that during the brief life period of a man the potent new motives can not, usually, press down hard enough to obliterate the…
Leielui (italian Edition) (de Carlo, Andrea)
Immaturità o indipendenza?
Nella metropolitana cerca di capire il significato della sua reazione istantanea alla telefonata di Stefano: insofferenza rispetto ai doveri, paura degli impegni a lungo termine, noia, esasperazione, cosa? Si chiede se il suo comportamento sia un segno di immaturità o di…
I calzoni corti degli uomini adulti
“Senti” dice lui. “Quando ero bambino, la cosa che sognavo di più era arrivare al giorno in cui avrei potuto liberarmi per sempre dei calzoni corti. Erano un simbolo così umiliante di immaturità, di sudditanza.” “Di sudditanza?” dice lei, come se avesse qualche dubbio sul…
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
Listening requires emotional strength
I talked with the father and found that he was intellectually aware of what was happening. But while he admitted he had a temper problem, he refused to take responsibility for it and to honestly accept the fact that his emotional development level was low. It was more than his…
The maturity continuum
The Seven Habits are not a set of separate or piecemeal psych-up formulas. In harmony with the natural laws of growth, they provide an incremental, sequential, highly integrated approach to the development of personal and interpersonal effectiveness. They move us progressively…
Dependence, independence and interdependence
On the maturity continuum, dependence is the paradigm of you—you take care of me; you come through for me; you didn’t come through; I blame you for the results. Independence is the paradigm of I—I can do it; I am responsible; I am self-reliant; I can choose. Interdependence is…
Independence is not supreme
It’s easy to see that independence is much more mature than dependence. Independence is a major achievement in and of itself. But independence is not supreme. Nevertheless, the current social paradigm enthrones independence. It is the avowed goal of many individuals and social…
Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney)
Adults who do too much for children
It is clear that Montessori had strong feelings about the tendency of adults to undermine children’s competence by doing too much for them. She used the word serving in her discussions and cautioned teachers that children remain incompetent if adults do for them what they are…
The death of the grown-up
she describes the parents who are serving their children in a way that is detrimental to their children’s growth and development. Another contemporary writer, Diana West, goes so far as to warn that this tendency is a threat to western civilization. Her book The Death of the…