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“Understanding child development takes the emphasis away from the child's character--looking at the child as good or bad. The emphasis is put on behavior as communication. Discipline is thus seen as problem-solving. The child is helped to learn a more acceptable manner of communication.”

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Author:Ellen Galinsky

“A treasure trove for parents and for professionals in the child-development fields.”

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Author:Jeffrey K. Zeig

“Wherever possible, home is by far the best nest until at least eight, ten or twelve. Psychologists and psychiatrists who understand child development would prefer an even later age. In a reasonably warm home, parent-child responses, the true ABC's of sound education, are likely to be a hundred times more frequent than the average teacher-child responses in a classroom.”

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Book:Homestyle Teaching

Source: Homestyle Teaching

“I teach child development and social policy as an undergraduate course, and I tell my students, "Look, on any of these issues, if you don't want to work on it for thirty years, don't start."”

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Author:Edward Zigler

“For every dollar spent on early child development you save $7 over the life course because children with better early child development are less likely to end up delinquent, involved in crime, unemployed and so on.”

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Author:Michael Marmot

“Saying we can't afford to invest in early child development means we're storing up bigger costs in the future.”

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Author:Michael Marmot

“It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.”

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Book:Dialogue with Jean Piaget

Source: Dialogue with Jean Piaget

“Governments that invest billions in new hardware still find it hard to accept that they might benefit just as much from systematic innovation in such things as child development or cutting crime.”

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Author:Geoff Mulgan