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“Acceptance is approval, a word with a bad name in some psychologies. Yet it is perfectly normal to seek approval in childhood and throughout life. We require approval from those we respect. The kinship it creates lifts us to their level, a process referred to in self-psychology as transmuting internalization. Approval is a necessary component of self-esteem. It becomes a problem only when we give up our true self to find it. Then approval-seeking works against us.”

Giving Self Problem Names Process Levels Psychology Childhood Self Esteem Acceptance Giving Up Normal Seeking Esteem Lifts Approval True Self Components Kinship Perfectly Normal

Author:David Richo

“Marnie was ahead of its time. People didn't talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss sexuality and psychology and to put all that into a film was shocking.”

People Film Psychology Childhood Effects Adults Sexuality Shocking Taboo

Author:Tippi Hedren

“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.”

Love Humans May Community Psychology Society Childhood Depends Survival Threat Protection Our Society Nurture Infancy

Book:Every child's birthright: in defense of mothering

Source: Every child's birthright: in defense of mothering

“What I remember the most about my childhood is constant fear and "good food." I don't want to get into the greasy, buttery, deep-fried, fatty, sugary, meaty, barbecued details here, but with no knowledge of healthy lifestyles or positive psychology, time took its toll on me.”

Want Remember Psychology Childhood Healthy Constant Details Lifestyle Healthy Lifestyle Tolls Good Food Positive Psychology Fatty

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.”

People Believe Motivation Evil Psychology Childhood Likes

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.”

Knows Want Inspirational Children Stills Felt Psychology Childhood Hints Memories Dreams Reflections Child Psychology

Book:Memories, dreams, reflections

Source: Memories, dreams, reflections

“People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.”

People Children Psychology Childhood Nostalgic

Author:Bill Watterson

“Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.”

Believe Made Choices Belief Psychology Childhood Innocence

Book:The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic

Source: The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic

“Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.”

Inspirational Matter Choices Chance Psychology Childhood Teenager Teens Adolescence

Book:Parenting Your Teenager

Source: Parenting Your Teenager

“I think we seek out people who we hope will fix what our childhood broke.”

People Thinking Life Children Hope Psychology Relationship Childhood Our Children Seeking Broke Fixing People In Your Life

Author:Yasmin Mogahed

“Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be surprising that object control is the basis of one of the five most fundamental metaphors for our inner life. To control objects, we must learn to control our bodies. We learn both forms of control together. Self-control and object control are inseparable experiences from earliest childhood. It is no surprise that we should have as a metaphor-a primary metaphor-Self Control is Object Control.”

“[One way] researchers sometimes evaluate people's judgments is to compare those judgments with those of more mature or experienced individuals. This method has its limitations too, because mature or experienced individuals are sometimes so set in their ways that they can't properly evaluate new or unique conditions or adopt new approaches to solving problems.”

Source: Teen 2.0: Saving Our Children and Families from the Torment of Adolescence