“Parents must begin to discover their children as individuals of developing tastes and views and so help them be, and see, themselves as thinking, feeling people. It is far too easy for a middle-years child to absorb an over-simplified picture of himself as a sloppy, unreliable, careless, irresponsible, lazy creature and not much more--an attitude toward himself he will carry far beyond these years.” PeopleThinkingYearsChildrenHelpingFeelingsIndividualEasyParentViewsAttitudeMiddleTasteCreaturesIndividualityDevelopingLazyCarelessIrresponsibleUnreliableSloppy Author:Dorothy H Cohen
“The middle years are ones in which children increasingly face conflicts on their own,... One of the truths to be faced by parentsduring this period is that they cannot do the work of living and relating for their children. They can be sounding boards and they can probe with the children the consequences of alternative actions.” YearsChildrenActionFacesMiddlePeriodsConflictConsequenceAlternativesBoards Author:Dorothy H Cohen
“Children of the middle years do not do their learning unaffected by attendant feelings of interest, boredom, success, failure, chagrin, joy, humiliation, pleasure, distress and delight. They are whole children responding in a total way, and what they feel is a constant factor that can be constructive or destructive in any learning situation.” WayFeelsYearsChildrenWholeFeelingsJoyInterestPleasureSituationLearningMiddleConstantDelightFactorsBoredomDestructiveDistressHumiliationConstructiveRespondingSuccess FailureChagrin Author:Dorothy H Cohen
“In the middle years of childhood, it is more important to keep alive and glowing the interest in finding out and to support this interest with skills and techniques related to the process of finding out than to specify any particular piece of subject matter as inviolate.” YearsImportantMatterProcessInterestSupportLearningPiecesAliveChildhoodMiddleSubjectsParticularSkillsFindingsTechniqueRelatedGlowingSubject Matter Author:Dorothy H Cohen