Quotes about child development

Children Learn What They Live - Dorothy Law Neite
If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn.
If a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight.
If a child lives with ridicule, he learns to be shy.
If a child learns to feel shame, he learns to feel guilty.
If a child lives with tolerance, he learns to be patient.
If a child lives with encouragement he learns confidence
If a child lives with praise, he learns to appreciate.
He a child lives with fairness, he learns justice.
If a child lives with security, he learns to have faith.
If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself.
If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world.

"We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today."
- Stacia Tauscher

"Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.
- Dr. Hiam Ginnot

"Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand."
- Chinese proverb

"The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning."
- Anonymous

“Since the earliest period of our life was preverbal, everything depended on emotional interaction. Without someone to reflect our emotions, we had no way of knowing who we were.”
― John Bradshaw

“The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it’s rarely a straight line.” ― Eileen Kennedy-Moore