November 2011

If a Child Lives with Acceptance and Friendship He Learns to find Love in the World-Part 12

November 25, 2011

How did you feel about yourself as a youngster in your home?  Were you accepted for the person you were, “warts and all?”   Were you viewed as a good child, who sometimes got into mischief and who had much to learn?   Or, was your every action evaluated for what was lacking or inappropriate?  Your experiences [...]

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If a Child Lives with Approval, He Learns to Like Himself-Part 11

November 20, 2011

If you want you child to like herself and to experience the self-confidence that goes along with this, it is important that you  help her become intrinsically motivated in her life.   It is not enough to ask her what she thinks or what her opinion is.  It is inappropriate to adhere to the majority of [...]

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If a Child Lives with Security, He Learns to Have Faith-Part 10

November 14, 2011

Volumes have been written about the maternal-infant bond, the emotional microcosm for all human interactions.  Beginning at the moment of known conception, this bond strengthens as the pregnant woman moves toward the birth of her child.  Within the intimacy of this relationship with her mother the newborn has her earliest experiences in terms of how the world [...]

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If a Child Lives with Fairness, He Learns Justice-Part 9

November 13, 2011

  When you look back on your family of origin and the home within which you grew, are you aware that this was the primary environment which established your benchmark for all that was good, just and fair in life?  Do you realize that your perception of the world as either a safe place within [...]

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