Famous Quotes by Lawrence Kutner

  • Do your children view themselves as successes or failures? Are they being encouraged to be... More
  • The family environment in which your children are growing up is different from that in which you... More
  • A two-week-old infant cries an average of one and a half hours every day. This increases to... More
  • Gaining a better understanding of how children’s minds work at different ages will allow you to... More
  • Archaeologists have uncovered six-thousand-year-old clay tablets from southern Babylonia that... More
  • Not all conflicts between siblings are good, of course. A child who is repeatedly humiliated or... More
  • Far more critical to children than learning the details of intercourse at a young age is ... that... More
  • Theories of child development and guidelines for parents are not cast in stone. They are... More
  • In some ways being a parent is like being an anthropologist who is studying a primitive and... More
  • Sometimes the children who are no problem to their parents should be looked at more closely. This... More
  • Three-year-olds see the world in black-and-white terms.... They have been told that they should... More
  • Being a parent is such serious business that we dare not take it too seriously. Children are... More
  • Teasing is universal. Anthropologists have found the same fundamental patterns of teasing among... More
  • Childhood is an adventure both for children and for their parents. There should be freedom to... More
  • Children learn and remember at least as much from the context of the classroom as from the... More
  • Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders—and even chopsticks—comes with an instruction... More
  • One of the main things that interfere with our joy is the belief that if we try hard enough, read... More
  • A child’s self-image is more like a scrapbook than a single snapshot. As the child matures, the... More
  • Doing your child’s homework is a bit like believing that they can get into shape by watching... More
  • “Never hug and kiss your children! Mother love may make your children’s infancy unhappy and... More
  • There’s one basic rule you should remember about development charts that will save you... More
  • With all the attention paid to your new baby, it’s easy for your own feelings and needs to get... More
  • Unless your baby becomes uncomfortable and tries to push away, don’t worry that you’re... More
  • As one child psychologist friend of mine explains it with tongue in cheek, your baby only needs a... More
  • Always remember that a child doesn’t have to be average to be normal. Children with very... More
  • It’s largely the luck of the draw as to what type of temperament your child has. More
  • All parents occasionally have ambivalent feelings toward their children. We love our kids, but... More
  • Pregnancy represents one of the great unknowns in life. Everyone’s at least a little worried... More
  • I’ve always been impressed by the different paths babies take in their physical development on... More
  • The site of the true bottomless financial pit is the toy store. It’s amazing how much a few... More
  • Our species successfully raised children for tens of thousands of years before the first person... More
  • Our idealized images of successful parents are filled with contradictions. We expect them (and... More
  • Feeling that you have to be the perfect parent places a tremendous and completely unnecessary... More
  • It’s so easy during those first few months to think that the problems will never end. You feel... More
  • Giving toddlers and preschoolers limited choices over such things as what they will wear... More
  • The word infant derives from Latin words meaning “not yet speaking.” It emphasizes what the... More
  • It’s important to remember that children who are facing a frightening situation have three... More
  • Children treat their friends differently than they treat the other people in their lives. A... More
  • I tell people that when my son was this age, all of the things he did that really aggravated me... More
  • Numerous studies have shown that those adults who feel the most frustrated by children—and the... More
  • The term preschooler signals another change in our expectations of children. While toddler refers... More
  • The fundamental job of a toddler is to rule the universe. More

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