“Every parent who has ever said a few words over a goldfish in a toilet bowl or felt the numbness of an unexpected diagnosis in a pediatrician's office will appreciate the heartfelt wisdom in It's Okay to Cry. Norm Wright tenderly and skillfully equips parents to help children cultivate a healthy response to life's many pains and sorrows.” HeartChildrenSaidHelpingPainFeltParentCrySorrowHealthyOfficeAppreciateOkayResponseUnexpectedBowlsNormToiletsDiagnosisHeartfeltFew WordsNumbnessGoldfishPain And SorrowPediatrician Author:Lori Borgman
“Television programming for children need not be saccharine or insipid in order to give to violence its proper balance in the scheme of things.... But as an endless diet for the sake of excitement and sensation in stories whose plots are vehicles for killing and torture and little more, it is not healthy for young children. Unfamiliar as yet with the full story of human response, they are being misled when they are offered perversion before they have fully learned what is sound.” NeedsGivingHumansChildrenLittlesStoriesYoungOrderSoundViolenceTelevisionBalanceHealthyResponseKillingSakeEndlessDietsExcitementTortureProgrammingPlotSensationsVehicleSchemesUnfamiliarYoung ChildrenPerversionMisledInsipid Author:Dorothy H Cohen
“Accepting that we are angry is a healthy and appropriate response as long as we don't get stuck in it. Acknowledging it is one way of going through it.” WayLongAcceptingHealthyAngryResponseStuckOne WayAppropriate Book:Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage Source: Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage
“Psychologically speaking, the rational, healthy response to climate change is to say to oneself, "What can I do about this?" But that question is often answered through individual action.” ActionIndividualHealthyClimateResponseClimate ChangeOneselfRational Author:Margaret D. Klein
“There are still many women - and their spouses and children - who view a reflected self - I'm Mrs. Smith, not Mary Smith - as psychologically healthy. Those people are not motivated to change. But it is really dangerous to live through others'. What ever your circumstances, it is not a good idea to be wholly dependent on responses from others to like, respect or love yourself. Your children will grow up and start their own families; the divorce rate has remained at 50 percent for decades.” PeopleChildrenGrowing UpLove YouDangerousCircumstancesHealthyOur ChildrenResponseRateDivorceYour ChildrenMotivatedLove YourselfSpouse Author:Judith M Bardwick
“In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.” HealthySickDifficultyResponseIllFittingDemonstratingSick SocietyPositive Response Author:Charlotte Perkins Gilman