“We find that even the parents who justify spanking to themselves are defensive and embarrassed about it....I suspect that deep inthe memory of every parent are the feelings that had attended his own childhood spankings, the feelings of humiliation, of helplessness, of submission through fear. The parent who finds himself spanking his own child cannot dispel the ghosts of his own childhood.” ChildrenFeelingsParentMemoriesChildhoodStyleGhostJustifySuspectsEmbarrassedHumiliationSubmissionHelplessnessSpankingParenting Styles Author:Selma Fraiberg
“We have good reason to believe that memories of early childhood do not persist in consciousness because of the absence or fragmentary character of language covering this period. Words serve as fixatives for mental images. . . . Even at the end of the second year of life when word tags exist for a number of objects in the child's life, these words are discrete and do not yet bind together the parts of an experience or organize them in a way that can produce a coherent memory.” WayYearsBelieveChildrenEndsReasonCharacterTogetherLanguageMemoriesNumbersConsciousnessChildhoodObjectsProducePeriodsAbsencePersistOrganizeCoveringTagEarly ChildhoodYears Of LifeDiscrete Book:The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood Source: The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood
“Our survival as a human community may depend as much upon our nurture of love in infancy and childhood as upon the protection of our society from external threats.” LoveHumansMayCommunityPsychologySocietyChildhoodDependsSurvivalThreatProtectionOur SocietyNurtureInfancy Book:Every child's birthright: in defense of mothering Source: Every child's birthright: in defense of mothering
