Quotes by Penelope Leach - Page 1

Whatever you do to your child's body, you are doing to your child's mind too.
Penelope Leach / Psychologist
Family
Children
Mind
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Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being "fearless" means being without fear.
Penelope Leach / Psychologist
Brave
Fearless
Mean
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Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives.
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Family
Kids
Children
Parent
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Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now or in the future.
Penelope Leach / Psychologist
Emotion
Guilt
May
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Children do not need superhuman, perfect parents. They have always managed with good enough parents: the parents they happened to have.
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Children
Needs
Perfect Parents
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Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.
Penelope Leach / Psychologist
Baby
Feedback
Giving
Newborn
Circular
Loop
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There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby's. Your body is the child's instrument of birth.
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Baby
Children
Pregnancy
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For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.
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Learning
Division
Educational
Enjoyable
Fun
Small Child
Living
Child
Also
Any
Does
Between
He
Part
Small
He Or She
Learns
Playing
She
While
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For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does 'just for fun' and things that are 'educational.' The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.
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Children
Educational
Fun
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Grown-up people do very little and say a great deal.... Toddlers say very little and do a great deal.... With a toddler you cannot explain, you have to show. You cannot send, you have to take. You cannot control with words, you have to use your body.
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People
Use
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Your preschool child will chatter endlessly to you. If you half-listen and half-reply the whole conversation will seem, and become, tediously meaningless for both of you. but if you really listen and really answer, he will talk more and what he says will make more sense.
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Answers
Children
Half
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Your toddler will be "good" if he feels like doing what you happen to want him to do and does not happen to feel like doing anything you would dislike. With a little cleverness you can organize life as a whole, and issues in particular, so that you both want the same thing most of the time.
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Issues
Littles
Want
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A preschool child does not emerge from your toddler on a given date or birthday. He becomes a child when he ceases to be a wayward, confusing, unpredictable and often balky person-in-the- making, and becomes a comparatively cooperative, eager-and-easy-to-please real human being--at least 60 per cent of the time.
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Children
Confusing
Real
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A baby who cannot relax can be helped to do so by a variety of constant rhythmical stimuli. it will work if the trouble is some kind of general and diffuse irritability or tenseness which is preventing a tired baby relaxing into sleep. The burring sound of a fan or heater works excellently. So does the sound of a car engine.
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Baby
Sleep
Tired
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You know that your toddler needed love and approval but he often seemed not to care whether he got it or not and never seemed to know how to earn it. Your pre-school child is positively asking you to tell him what does and does not earn approval, so he is ready to learn any social refinement of being human which you will teach him....He knows now that he wants your love and he has learned how to ask for it.
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Asking
Children
School
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Two generations ago only a few unfortunate children ever saw anyone hit over the head with a brick, shot, rammed by a car, blown up, immolated, raped or tortured. Now all children, along with their elders, see such images every day of their lives and are expected to enjoy them. ... The seven-year-old who hides his eyes in the family cops-and-robbers drama is desensitized four years later to a point where he crunches potato chips through the latest video nasty.
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Children
Drama
Eye
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